Hi,

I am a newbie who is trying to install Mandriva on my desktop running windows XP. It is an emachine with Intel Celeron, 2ghz and 256 RAM. I downloaded Mandriva One and created an ISO-image boot disc. The installation starts smoothly, it prompts me for the language/time settings and if I want to use Metisse/Comp Fusion (I chose no 3D effects). Then the main desktop appeared and everything is sluggishly slow - the mouse cursor drags slowly and sometimes disappears and opening one window just takes forever. I don't have internet set-up yet (I haven't plugged the ethernet cable in the machine). I thought it was going to ask me about parititioning but it didn't.. Can someone help me identify the problem??

Thanks so much.

I would say its probably because of metisse/comp fusion. I'd disable this and see if it's any better.

That doesn't sound like the installation to me! I think you were still running in 'LiveCD' mode. Running from the cd is always a bit sluggish as your ram is used a lot more. If you want to install to the harddrive (which will improve the speed) there is an icon on the desktop to start the process.

i think the combination of LIVE mode and 256MB

2GHZ is more than enough CPU, but a "full" installation runs MUCH faster on 512mb+

alternatively you could try the "mini me" version

J

THanks for everyoneś reply. Once I installed Mandriva One onto my harddrive the speed picked up. However it is still somewhat sluggish (I have not yet tried any of the 3D effects) so I think I will increase the amount of RAM in my machine.

Good choice. 256M is pretty OK for XFCE, lxde or E17 desktop environments, but rather low for Gnome, and almost unacceptable for KDE3.

Is Beagle or that other indexing-programm (i forgot the name) running, if so remove them.