Cool,
Chris Day wrote:
Its definitely good *BUT* its not nessisarily all smooth sailing - Ubuntu v 4.10 failed to detect my hardware correctly and install crashed.
That can happen with any distro install, on random hardware, from what I've seen. Which is why one needs one or two other easily-installed distros up one's sleeve, at all times. Not getting hung up on any particular brand seems the best advice to me.
Latest editions of Knoppix, Morphix & MDK all worked fine. Haven't spent any time trying to figure out the reason and don't plan to - Knoppix v3.7 is working fine and doing a good job considering I haven't tailored it to my HW in any way.
FYI: Hardware is AMD Athlon clocking at 1.7GHz, MSI K7N2 Delta MB with NVIDIA nForce2 chipset, 512MB DDR, WD 60GB IDE HDD, Cyber DVD+RW, LiteOn Combo.
Just out of interest, how simply does Knoppix or Morphix get installed to hdd? Answer as for a newbie please. ($#, mount, cd \ etc.)
MDK has been heavily utilised in this region over time, leaving many dissatisfied. That's why it's getting little mention of late.
