Re: Mandrake is a Piece Of Shit!

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From: Natalie Foster
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 06:13

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Installation of Mandrake 7.1 on a Cyrix 100 ??
let me warn you, its going to really..really crawl

Christopher Ryan wrote:
> 
> >
> > Try booting into Mandrake using a boot floppy go to DrakConf and alter Boot
> > preference to make the win98 95 etc partition the default boot system, then
> > when you reboot you will not have the Stage 1 Geom Error message but instead
> > you should see the Lilo prompt then you can select either Linux Windows
> > Rescue etc at your leisure! At least thats how I did it.and it worked for me.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your reply.
> I'll post in a few mins with the result.
> really appreciate it :-)
> Chris.

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