On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Larry Marshall wrote:
>> I have 2 machines here, a PentiumII/400 handbuilt, and a P-II/350
>> pre-built. Mandrake 7.1 runs fine on both of them. I think it is more a
>> matter of having more or less well supported hardware than where the
>> system comes from.
>
>I agree about the hardware but what about the software source? I have
>limited experience comparing installation sets but here's a couple
>examples that have caused me to wonder.
>
>Mandrake 7.1
>1) Maximum Linux included a 7.1 disk...just one disk.
The first disk already includes a great amount of software and drivers. I
can understand that not everything will work just like out of the box. I
had to go out and get some stuff from the internet also, even though I
have 2 CD's.
>2) I've installed 7.1 from commercial disks and it worked fine. But
>what I see is that some of the drivers are on the ext disk. How would
>it work with the Max Linux disk?
No idea, I have not seen that disk. But "Max Linux" is not a common
magazine here in Holland.
An option would be to go to www.cheapbytes.com and order the second disk
there. For only a few dollars you can have it. There is a similar site
over here that I can get my install cd's from, called www.tienpiek.nl (No
need to go there if you cannot read dutch!). $5 per CD for me, including
postage.
>3) To test my new CD writer I downloaded iso images of 7.1 and made
>raw image disks using CD-Creator (in image mode) and with cdrecord.
>Both of these disks appear identical and act the same....they won't go
>through the install. Rather, they give me the "can't create ramdisk"
>error that's been reported here (remember, my system is happily
>running 7.1 so it's not hardware).
>
>I've also noted that different mirror sites have iso images of
>different sizes? Anyone understand this?
I do not understand this, but _maybe_ this points to the problem you had
with the homebaked CD. I can imagine (without proof) that there is an ISO
out there that is bad. I have encountered this with the 7.0 ISO's being
like that also. (Heard this from a friend with a cable modem.)
>I have are questions here; anyone have answers?
Lots of people here. Not immediately, not always. But there are a lot of
answers.
Paul
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