If someone wants to hit me with a clue-by-4 on a better
place to send this, please do (privately!)...
This last weekend I worked on installing Mandrake 8.1 on
my father's computer, and I tried to install it on my laptop.
I won't bore anyone with the gory details, but I will pass
on the following comments/bug_reports/requests_for_fixes/whines/
queries:
1 - BEWARE - you apparently cannot install Mandrake 8.1 on a
machine with 32M of real memory (now, I am pretty sure
you can RUN on a machine with less than 32 meg, you
just appear to be unable to INSTALL it).
The query is - does anyone know why this is happening,
and how hard would it be for me to create a special
boot image that will fit inside of my 32M laptop?
2 - BEWARE - Windows is dumber than you thought. If you create
an extended partition, and only put linux partitions in
it, Windows 98 *and* DOS 6.2 *****WILL LOCK UP****.
Even before it checks the old 'F8' key!
Solution - convert the extended partition to linux extended
or put a rediculous dos partition inside the extended one.
(I chose the former solution.)
It would be really nice if the install had either warned
me of this, or simply not allowed it. Of course, it *IS*
true that I used the 'expert' install mode ;-), so its
probably all my fault ;-)
just a little feedback/warning/whatever. (I *almost* got my dad
to switch from Windows to Linux - so far he's pretty impressed, but
we had one small problem with email so he's still a bit uncomfortable
yet...)
(If anyone wants more gory details, I can supply them. (Imagine
my horror when, after a fine Mandrake install, windows refused
to boot! Even a dos6.2 floppy refused to boot! I was glad to
have stored in the back of my head (some of) the stupidity of
Windwoes!)
rc
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