I've spent a week, unsuccessfully, trying to get
Linux-Mandrake 6.0 to work properly. After getting through the install
procedure, which went by with no real difficulty, I started Linux and was amazed
at how slow it was. It kept accessing my hard drive for almost every
little thing I did. I gave it a 3 Gig ext2 partition and a 200MB swap
file partition from my 10Gig IBM 7200RPM ide hard drive. All my hardware
is supposed to be compatible with it (except for my SB Live). It took like 3
minutes for Netscape to load, it took 3 minutes for a desktop theme
to apply, and there was obviously something wrong with it.
I tried to shut it down, but then it hung while "preparing a new
session." When I rebooted, there were
errors on my hard drive and I had to 'run fsck manually'. I did, and when
I started it again, some programs wouldn't work like, Netcfg. Some Icons
turned black in KDE and I couldn't even click on them. I had the same
shutdown problem and decided to re-install it.
The same things happened to me. I was told
that I have to upgrade some kernal or something. But, I can't even load
Linux without having to go through that lengthy fsck procedure at
startup.
I guess I just stick to windows :(
For those Linux experts out there, someone should
come up with a site or book that'll help people migrate from Windows to
Linux.
Just a suggestion.
Thanks everyone!
James Garcia
