I have installed Mandrake 7.0 on several occaisions, each time having odd problems - network not configured, mouse not found, X config failures etc. This time, my newly acquired GPL 7.1 has sprung a double-whammy : (1) hung on X config in the installation - a reboot started the system ok, leading to (2) kernel error msgs - no supermount support (1) seems due to a corruption of the card database, since running xf86config I get errors relating to several Trident cards not being found in the d/b. (2) is rather odder - I presume some of the mods haven't been installed. I presume I'll have to reinstall, since on this evidence there's no telling what else is not installed correctly. Next time it will be a text-mode install, if possible. Firtstly, is it just me, or is there a history of installation oddities with Mandrake 7.x ? Secondly, how do I do a text-mode installation ? For the record, I'm not a Linux newbie (been running SuSE on my main pc for 3 years) just a mandrake almost-newbie. H/W spec - P120, 68Mb, 4.3Gb hdd, 52x EIDE CD-ROM, S3ViRGE/2Mb, serial mouse, Yamaha Sa-X soundcard, 3C509 Combo NIC. The same h/w experiences no trouble installing SuSE 6.4, RH 6.1, Corel, Storm & FreeBSD 3.3 & 4.0. TIA, Paul. ps sorry about the clag below - I'm behind a corporate firewall and using Exchange :( "WorldSecure Server <lombard.co.uk>" made the following annotations on 06/29/00 10:53:04 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The opinions expressed within this email represent those of the individual and not necessarily those of Lombard North Central. The contents of this Email may be privileged and are confidential. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee(s), nor copied in any way. If received in error, please advise the sender, then delete from your system. Should you wish to use Email as a mode of communication, Lombard North Central PLC are unable to guarantee the security of Email content outside of our own computer systems. Lombard North Central PLC Registered in England No 337004 Registered Office 3 Princess Way Redhill Surrey RH1 1NP A Member of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group ==============================================================================
