On Thursday 16 December 2004 05:02, Christian Convey wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You should have a go at Mandrake, never had any problem with recongnizing > > hardware. Very good for easy-peasy installations and for friends and > > family who do not want to have hassle. > > Thanks, I'll look into it. > > I used to use Mandrake pretty happily, but then I had problems with > their package distribution system. I could sometimes select > combinations of packages for installation / upgrade that would lead to > an non-bootable system. That kind of unforseen problem worried me > greatly. I wonder if they've improved since the Mandrake 9.1 days... > > I've also heard that SuSE is pretty good in the "it just works" > category. Do you have a sense of why I might prefer one over the other?
My son installed the next but latest Suse. It does just work so far as it is concerned but it will give trouble if you are dual booting Windows. It leaves the Windows partition unbootable because it rewrites the CHS record to something Windows doesn't like. Likewise Fedora 2. Can't comment on the latest Suse or Fedora I'm afraid. You can work around the above. Set up your partitions including initialising the file systems using Mandrake + cfdisk. Then install the other distro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
