On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, you wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> untill yesterday, I was using RedHat 6.1,
> and everything worked great.
> Yesterday I formatted everything, and installed mandraked 7.0,
> and it loks like a big mistake, nothing works good,
> first of all, I couldn't install Xserver,
> I can't login as root, I need to login as a normal user and then to su(This can
>probably be changed),
> and I can't install mysql++(At least not the source distribution).
> The mysql++ worked on the same computer for RedHat,
> I even installed from the same tar file.
> Can anyone help me?
>
> Thanks,
> Amir Hardon.
Amir, generally, when your system has little or no problems
with a distro like RedHat, but does with Mandrake, it's not good
news. Most common reason is that RH is not optimized for i586/686
and Mandrake is. Your hardware most likely isn't up to snuff to
handle i586/686 timings in the code, or you've got some
misconfigurations (eg, bios), or both.
You'll prob'ly havt'a go back to a i386 distro like RH. If
you really wanna stick with Mandrake, a 7.1 version optimized for
i386/486 will be available shortly. You could also try recompiling
the Mandrake kernel (from source) for i386. The source rpm's are on
the CD. The first option in 'make (X)config' is i386... i586
optimizations. If that helps, you'll prob'ly need to hunt down
other problems (like mysql) and recompile them, or get
....i386.rpm's to replace the Mandrake i586 ones. I'd think it
would just be easier to stick with an i386 distro tho, 'specially
if your problems are hardware/configuration related.
How 'bout posting your hardware specs? we might be able to help
--
~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
