Mysticle31

Is there a way to do raid on the live CD? Does Mandrivia have an alternate install CD for RAID/LVM applications like (x)(k)ubuntu does?. At the moment the only distros I've gotten to install are Xandros, Suse, (x)(k)ubuntu, and fedora. Xandros doesn't like my bluetooth (Logitech mouse and keyboard) and does HCI mode only Suse - same thing Xubuntu has no bluetooth (K)ubuntu has bluetooth but drops the connection overnight and I have to go find the wired kbd/mouse. Plus they won't connect to anything else. Fedora is just to complex for my current linux leval. So my money on trying Mandrivia is fairly high, along with PCLinux, Mepis, and Freespire.

Well, mdadm is installed, but its stopped. I click on start and nothing happens. I click options on MCC and click display logs and it's blank. mdadm does have a config file in ./etc but it's empty. Dang! Mandrivia is bulky. I'm using up 793 megs of ram just sitting on the desktop! Even vista didn't do that, or is it because I'm using a live CD? I think other KDE distros usually take about 350, 400. I'm jealous of XFCE's 123 megs.

I have an intel 875P. I leard a long time ago very early in playing with raid that linux does not like raid controllers like mine. The only distro to use it was SUSE, and Xandros. I'll check to see if it's starting. I've already checked to see if it was installed, and it was.

How do I install to a RAID array? I found the raid button, but it asks if it should install mdadm then it says "MAndatory package mdadm is missing". I looked in add/remove programs and found that mdadm is installed. I havn't really searched for the answer very much. Mandriva has the BEST control center I've seen!!

I got it going. I had problems with installing the proprietary drivers for my Radion in other distros. So I changed to an Nvidia card and it loads now.. Creating new thread for my RAID problem

Ah yes, sorry about that. I've got a Radion 9600 with 256megs, or was it 128, I don't remember. 2.8ghz P4, 800mhz FSB, Abit IC7-G, 1024 megs of Corsair TwinX, 2 37 gig Raptors in raid 0 (use as primary drive), a 160gig secondary drive for data, two 20s and a 40 gig that I like to JBOD together for TV recordings (hoping to try MythTV or some other DVR program with scheduling and web plugins..etc.) For my other linux distros I have partitioned off 100 megs of my 20 gig (primary master) for use as /boot and Raid 0 array is /.

Hi guys. First post here. I've been playing with different distros trying them all out. I've had a hell of a time getting some (ex Kubuntu) to actually use and display fglrx in the fglrxinfo and not mesa. Seems to be a common deal. Out of all the times I've installed Kubuntu (at least 10) sometimes it goes smoothly, sometimes not. Suse had it's own issues with my bluetooth.. I can go on and on. Anyhow I digress. I'm looking to try Mandriva, however, I can't get it to load X off the live CD!. It works fine in my Tablet (to test the CD) and the MD5 checksum was ok. Just on my desktop, no go. I don't know if there are any logs or anything that were created. It's not supposed to touch my HD during the process. Any ideas? Has anyone else ever experienced this problem?