Mandrake 10

[GeminiJon]

Anybody install this one yet?

I just burned CD's 1, 2, & 3 this afternoon and am going to try an install after I format my hard drive and reinstall XP.

I'm completely new to linux and am really excited, this looks great.

[friskydrifter]

Havent had a look at it yet, welcome to linux - it is great!

[GeminiJon]

Well I would agree with you if I hadn't had problems with it this weekend.

I installed Mandrake 10 and chose all the desktops at the install screen and it finished installing and asked me which desktop I would prefer to use, so I thought I'd try KDE first.

The bootloader works fine, after reboot it came up and I chose linux. Everything looked okay until the KDE progress stopped at 85% on the blue folder, I just thought it was taking too long but I waited for it to continue and it went to a blank blue screen, nothing else.

I rebooted and tried the other choices, linux-nonfb does the same. And I don't know anything about failsafe.

Could anyone help me out? I'd really like to see linux working on my pc.

System Specs:
P4 2.4 GH 533fsb
512 MB PC2100 or 2700 memory
Liteon DVD
NEC CDRW
Soundblaster Live
GeForce4 420MX 64 MB video
Windows XP Home on C:

[gaxprels]

do you have a "boot: " prompt at the boot selection screen? if so you might try:

linux noscsi

and see if that helps... other boot parameters that might help alone or in combination include:
nousb
nopci
noapm
noacpi
acpi=no
apm=no
nomce
nopcmcia


I hope this helps... good luck and let us know if any of those work...

[Andy Fun]

I have the same problem basicly. I am new to this forum and Linux.I posted in the wrong area earlier,sorry about that. But my problem is that when I start up mandrake 10.0 it hangs for about 4 minutes.
Also I can't get on line for some reason. I am using ADSL. I must ask, where is " Boot Selection Screen"? is it in console or KDE ? I don't want to mess anything up by putting commands in the wrong program.
A neighbour of mine installed this for me so I'm on my own the rest of the way. I am very happy to have this new OS as I have been using windows for a long time and would like to learn about Mandrake and see the difference between the 2 and explore it so I need all the help I can get. I am running IntelR / pentiumR 4 / cpu 1500mhz/ 1.51GHz/ 256 Ram.
I am using Win XP to get on line.

do you have a "boot: " prompt at the boot selection screen? if so you might try:

linux noscsi

and see if that helps... other boot parameters that might help alone or in combination include:
nousb
nopci
noapm
noacpi
acpi=no
apm=no
nomce
nopcmcia


I hope this helps... good luck and let us know if any of those work...

[camelrider]

Andy Fun,
You've joined a two-year-old thread! If you have some fairly new hardware Mandrake 10 may have some trouble with identifying it on boot. The current open-free version is Mandriva 2006. It may handle current hardware much better and the Mandrake Control Center's Networking section may be better able to help with your ADSL problem.

http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/

Good Luck!

[basho]

I'm posting this from Mandrake 10.0 and Konqueror... My first Linux install at home (well, my second, I used old RedHat 9 disks to get the machine going, and to install bit torrent to get the Mandrake iso images).

The install process DID ask for Disk 4 (the bit torrent only had three disks), but I could skip it and things seem to work ok, so far...

My only problem was with the sound driver (ALSA), the boot process hangs trying to load it. If I start up in interactive mode and not load it everything else works fine. I'll post another top level message to see if people can help.

[drinking_beer]

Other problems --- Xmms crashes everytime I try to launch it from the menus. To get it to work, either launch it from a shell ($ xmms), or kill artsd (# pidof artsd, # kill -9 PID) then the menu entry for Xmms works fine. Whenever I kill the artsd I've had no probs with other apps. Results may vary.

KDE's Kontact is a nice collection of apps, but the knotes feature will lock it right up. Everytime.

Trying to burn from the CLI gives me this error ---
"cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/sg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver." I've tried running it as root and as a user. Not sure about this one. "cdrecord --scanbus" gives me 1,1,0 for my burner. K3B works great though.

Haven't had any boot problems (AthlonXP2000+, Gigabyte GA-7VAX, 512MB PC2700, GF4 Ti4200 128MB, not using any USB devices, but the USB ports are all detected) with 10.0 and the stock 2.6.3 kernel. I boot to runlevel 3 with the nonfb option as default.

Aside from these little points, I'm really impressed with Mandrake 10.0. KDE 3.2 is responsive and stable (I don't like Gnome so I haven't tried it. Not starting a flame war, just personal preference). KOffice 1.3 is really sweet and it'll save to .sxw format. Love it. When Mandrake releases the official version I'm going to buy it.

[drinking_beer]

One more thing, inorder to get java and flash working with FireFox and/or Mozilla, you have to install libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.83mdk.i586.rpm (a quick google search will find it). Just simply install that package and restart your browser. The plugins will be working just like that.

[Kobel]

Where did you get it GeminiJon? ???
I'm trying to find recent mandrake or redhat, but I can't :-[
Can anyone help me?
Thanks

Anybody install this one yet?

I just burned CD's 1, 2, & 3 this afternoon and am going to try an install after I format my hard drive and reinstall XP.

I'm completely new to linux and am really excited, this looks great.