I've been working for two days running a live cd on an old laptop as well as my main linux machine before attempting installation of mga2 on both machines. I have been unsuccessful. I"m not a newcomer nor an expert and am not interested in (to me) exotic CLI workarounds.
It's apparent that the default drivers (?) on the live CD aren't appropriate. The display on the laptop eventually ends up as rows and columns of white dots on a black backround with the arrow cursor still visible. The video card is an Nvidia NV17 GeForce4 440Go. My attempts on the relatively new Dell desktop with an NVidia GeForce 2 MX/MX400 also failed. All the text boxes were empty and text on the background were missing characters. Mga 1 worked for me like a charm. I love it. I hope that my experience installing mga 2 are rare; if not, mga 2 has a significant problem in recruiting new users. Paul Simon
