Hi Robert Try booting, off disc 2, the Community edition had some similar problems, with cd rom drives.
Mahesh > 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 > > ===== For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com
