I have just installed Mandrake 10 on a brand spanking P4 2.8GHz with 1GB RAM GeForce NVidia machine <Tim Taylor> grunt grunt grunt grunt grunt </Tim Taylor> :-)
It runs like a cut cat with the 2.6 kernel. When you fire up Konqueror it happens sub-2second.(not quite sub-second) So far no prob's except for having to install the NVidia driver myself. That was easy but not entirely trivial for a newbie. As the driver installation software had to do the compilation for the kernel on the fly. This meant I had to install the kernel-source. I think this is the sort of thing that installfests can help newbies out with. On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:13, you wrote: > Hi all, > > I thought, with another Installfest coming up, that I would share my recent > experinces with Mandrake. > > Hardware - 2 old Compaq servers, A 6000 with PII/300 and 128 Mb RAM, and an > AP500 with Dual PIII/450's and 256Mb RAM. (Both have SCSI hard drives) > > Mandrake 9.2 installed OK on both, the only problem was the ISA sound cards > - both the ES1868n and the ES1869 were detected OK with sndconfig though) > > Mandrake 10-Official was not so successful:- > On the Compaq 6000 it would boot up and just a few steps into the process > told me that no CD drive was detected. There may be a way around this but > it was not obvious to me. (9.2 worked fine) > > On the Compaq AP500 the installation went OK but even with sndconfig the > ES1869 was not detected (9.2 worked fine). > > I am now trying an "upgrade" over 9.2 to see if that will get me the sound. > > Certainly looks good with Kernel 2.6 and KDE 3.2 though. (I have these at > home on Gentoo) > > Any of you got any other war stories which may (or may not) help us before > the Installfest? > > -- > Robert Fisher > www.fisher.net.nz
