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Article #444Re: Mandrake is a Piece Of Shit!
From: Darryl Bryant
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 04:29
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 04:29
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root beer wrote: > > If I were you, I would have installed it on a 2nd hard disk itself > has it crossed your mind that maybe lnx4win is causing all your > problems ? I've tried almost every major distribution available and > they _always_ work fine. > > get a 2nd drive and install on it and give it another go, you won't > find any installation problems, trust me. > Yep, I second that, I reckon lnx4win is Brando's problem, I have Mandrake7.1 on an old p150 with 48meg, 4g hdrive, Mandrake7.1 recognized the hardware, setup the lan, I use the ResierFS on the root, home and usr partitions, its great!, for a nasty test I pulled the power point out of the wall, it took all of 30seconds for it reboot back to the login screen, very impressive. I use trays for my hard-drives, windog98 is on a separate drive, but it hasn't been in the machine for 2 months and even then it was only in for 1/2 an hour. dAz
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