Will do Randy, thanks. I don't remember if I was in Expert when I did the install - though I'm not an expert, I'm certainly gutsy enough to have done so ;-> One thing I distinctly remember is that there was no FUNCTIONAL "Cancel" button on most of the dialogs, which I saw as sloppiness, and it put me off trying again.
julian. ========================================= At 12:06 PM 12/17/01 -0500, you wrote: >Julian, > >I can't help you with the boot manager problem, but I do recommend you >use "exper" mode if you install Mandrake again. Initially, I worried >about whether I was expert enough to use it, but it really gives you a >lot of flexibility that is not present in the other modes. One example >is control over your partitioning -- some of the other install modes >will overwrite your existing partitions with no warning -- in expert you >can avoid that, and it seemed fairly self explanatory *to me*. (You can >also abort the installation before making any partition changes -- just >don't do the last step on the partitioning dialog (labeled "done"??), or >say no to any prompts which say anything like "the partition table will >now be saved to disk", and, if you have to, reboot or shut your machine >off.) > >hope this helps, >Randy Kramer > > >Julian Opificius wrote: > > Just to offer a contrasting and virtually worthless opinion here ... > > I'm not sure about the "slicker install" or "souped up". I lost Windows > > installs on two of my machines (Win98 and Win2000) because Mandrake 8.1's > > installer trashed my partition tables without giving me a way out, so I > > went back to Red Hat 7.2 and had a much better install experience. > > I use System Commander 7 as a boot manager, but Mandrake's installer > > wouldn't support writing the boot code on the Linux boot partition for > > another boot manager to "pick up", it absolutely insisted on writing it's > > boot block to the MBR, which is not polite, and more to the point, is not > > compatible with System Commander. > > > > > > > > > > I'll try Mandrake again this week, because many people have a very high > > opinion (I'm still subscribed to this list, obviously). > > > > If someone does know how to instruct Mandrake's installer to put it's boot > > block on /boot (folks seem to call this a "superblock", apparently), please > > tell me - I'd really like to give Mandrake a run - but please don't tell me > > to trash System Commander: I've paid for it, I like it, and it's friendly > > to my family users, who don't want to have to learn anything else :-) > > > > Thanks all ! > > > > Julian > > ====================== > > At 09:21 AM 12/17/01 -0600, you wrote: > > > > >---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > >Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake come from RedHat? > > >Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:20:17 -0600 > > >From: David McGlone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > >being an X-red hat user, I think Mandrake still runs and feels like > Red Hat. > > >It still handles like RH, it still uses a lot of files RH does and the > > >convention RH does. > > > > > >to me it's clearly a souped up RH version with a different name. > > > > > >David M. > > > > > >On Monday 17 December 2001 07:02 am, you wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 08:06:00 -0500 > > > > > > > > Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away Mandrake was "once" loosely > > > > > based on the RedHat distro...it is no longer the case. Mandrake is > > > > > clearly Mandrake.-- > > > > > daRcmaTTeR > > > > > > > > ======================================== > > > > I think at one time Mandrake was more than "loosely" based on > RH. Back in > > > > the 5.x days, I believe it was virtually RH w/ a slicker install > and KDE > > > > 1.x as a default desktop. You are quite correct that it is now a fully > > > > independent (with some similarities, and still rpm based) distro > all it's > > > > own. Mike > > > > > >---------------------------------------- > > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; name="message.footer" > > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > >Content-Description: > > >---------------------------------------- > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > ============================== > > Julian A. Opificius. > > 802 Fawn Road, Elk River, MN 55330. > > Home: 763.441.1291, Cell: 763.360.5919 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 3268206 > > ============================== > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ============================== Julian A. Opificius. 802 Fawn Road, Elk River, MN 55330. Home: 763.441.1291, Cell: 763.360.5919 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 3268206 ==============================
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