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Re: Mandrake is a Piece Of Shit!

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From: root beer
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 00:00
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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.

Brando wrote:
> 
> What a crappy distribution. No matter what I do, the installation fucks up somehow. No
> matter how many times I try to install LM 7.1 using lnx4win (Linux for Windows), there is
> always atleast one or two  packages (and always a different package) that causes an error
> during installation. There's errors in perl scripts, like for detecting pcmcia cards.
> Can't even use expert mode because there's errors in perl scripts when trying to format
> the partition.
> 
> Now, this time I get  an error during bootup that it can't find the image file for
> initrd!! WTF!! What, did LM just forget to create one during the installation? What image
> file is it looking for? linuxsys.img perhaps?
> 
> So, if anyone possibly knows what it means when it can't find the image file for initrd,
> please let me know a way to fix it.
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From: root beer <root@root3d.org>
Subject: Re: Mandrake is a Piece Of Shit!
Date: 2000/10/02
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