JonEberger

so i put an install of fc1 on an old laptop just to do it. i had mandrake 10.1 (which i really loved, it really is a fast distro) and read that for my old laptop, fc has some of the ibm thinkpad tools built in.

so i installed fc and installed the fluxbox rpm. everything except fluxbox launching is fast. i had to read around for yum. i also had to find the commands (they are there in my ultra small install) to bring networking up.

i don't know what the commands are for wireless networking. i know that ifup-eth0 is the command to bring up the ethernet connection. but i don't know the packages for iwconfig.

the big thing is that the install is monstrously huge. my mandrake install was right at 1 gb. this is already at 1.6 nearly.

i won't get to test this out for at least a few more hours. i'll let you know then.

so one interesting phenomenon i had forgotten to mention was that the syncs actually worked flawlessly when i used a serial non-cradle connection. but the serial cradle doesn't go with it. however the cradle works on other linux and def. under windows.

maybe this will fuel the discussion.

i had both.

but it was starting to have problems under 10.0, so i took this weekend to do install 10.1.

wow.....that is really helpful. a few people have responded (more on this board than anywhere else) and they weren't really sure what was happening either. :-) thanks! devries.

so i've posted minorly about this before. but i thought i'd bring it to the forefront with a new topic.

i run mandrake. now 10.1 as of yesterday. i have a palm iiic and it works wonderfully. cradle works in windows no sweat.

when i go to linux (kpilot, jpilot pilot-link) it locks when it hits /dev/ttyS0 or if i change serial ports on the pc it locks on /dev/ttyS1. everytime. this is not alt+ctrl+backspace out of x...the box is down. manual reboot.

so i tried it on another linux machine. mandrake 9.1. my wife's. it works great. so i get out her palm. it's a palm zire with usb. it syncs on her comp and when i put it on mine, it once again locks.

the cradle works wonderfully so i know that my serial cradle ain't the issue. also there are no problems with the usb cable. it's obviously something on my computer (it's hardware) and it's compatibility with mandrake 10.x or something that mandrake itself doesn't like. it there something i can do to fix this?

thanks.

there were problems with stability before?

i have used both suse 9.1 (the one you can download) and all the current mandrakes. no dout about it, the mandrake install is way easier. as far as applications off of iso's....no doubt mandrake. (you get three disks instead of 1).

i never had stability issues with either. bugs and quirks...well yeah. but no stability issues. one big problem was that suse didn't come with alot...and so to go get it required time. not a luxury i have (although i'm posting on a website).

however one really nice thing for me was that suse didn't have an issue with hardware. mandrake 10.0 and .1 still won't recognize a serial port that i know works for other linux distros and windows. ugh.

prettiness out of the box....suse. but it isn't worth the work and i couldn't tell that it was any faster.

I run Mandrake 10.0. When I launch a terminal window in KDE, the launch is slow. Sometimes taking up to 5 or 6 seconds. The computer is not a slow machine and this problem has only arisen in the last few weeks. Does anyone have a fix for this or know where I can look around to fix it? I have a friend running MDK 10.0 as well and his does the same.

Any help is always appreciated.

i added the nglayout.initialpaint.delay to my about:config and it really impressed me. with the other settings increased, it worked better but still the networking dragged. it is considerably better.

so i have gotten it to work with the gnomepilot conduits. it worked well.

i've been using both firefox and thunderbird for awhile now. they're both great. tabbed browsing rocks.

10.0. although its newer, i think it is really solid. i'm running it now actually. hardware support is good and everything works so well. if you were to install 9.2 now you'd have to get tons of updates on packages. might as well go for the newer one.

that is a beautiful desktop.

if you're real nervous, find an old machine and install it on there.

as far as terminology....google it. you can find most ofit out there.

if you're looking to install for the first time, mandrake is one to choose to do it with.

good luck.

My guess for slow boot time is trying to find a network connection. I set my wireless to not run at boot. otherwise it looks for a wireless network and takes forever to pick up stuff.

openoffice isn't fast...but over a minute seems alittle long.

good luck with it all.

i post this link all over the place, but it was really helpful

wireless help

also the ndiswrapper stuff worked better for me if i got the tarball from sourceforge.net. just go there and do a search for it. it works really great for me and my wife who also has wireless G

yup. post your ifcfg-wlan0 file which is in the /etc/sysconfig folder.

try to setup static ip. i dn't use wep....most of the time you don't need it. also...pull your eth0 down in favor of your wlan0 (wireless).

defragmenting is a big deal. we had to do it three times on my wife's inspiron 5150 to get 15 GB off. and she has a inspiron so you should be pretty good by and far. i can't imagine they wouldn't support an intel chip so i think you're okay there.

i presume your win partition is ntfs. mandrake 10.x comes with default ntfs read but not write. it will probably be put under /mnt/win. as far as partitioning goes, i always choose the expert install and do custom disk partitioning. then i resize my ntfs partition(s) and then tell mandrake to autoallocate (in expert disk partitioning mode) with a /usr. when you get to this point you'll know what i mean. it'll put a certain amount of swap close to the size of your RAM and it will partition everything else accordingly. i don't believe this negatively affects hd performance. however there is a good chance that your hd params will be set by default slower than the drive allows so you might want to do some research into hdparm.

good luck.

i don't know what version of windows you're using...

if in win2k or winxp, the computer administration tools has a drive management tool built in that sees all the partitions on one drive. you can manually delete them and reformat them. then you can put in your recovery disk (assuming you have an install disk) and frmo the repair console do a fixmbr ( you may want to do a help fixmbr).

if in older versions of windows you can probably get fdisk to delete the partitions and while in some kind of recovery boot or safemode with dos do a fdisk -mbr or format -mbr. it's been so long since i've ran a win9x variant.

but either way...i'd go to a dos prompt someway or another and use the tools there. MS is definitely going to provide you with the tools to get rid of linux even if you can use what's on those drives.

honestly....i'd go for the firefox browser. the plugins are easy to grab and they autoinstall. plus, it's so much faster and can be made WAY faster than the default.

my guess is that it's also less buggy than mozilla.

do you run a particular mail client?

on the services page, can you just hit enter? (silly question I know, but I doubt you can based upon your description.) i agree, try to make sure your video settings are correct. if that doesn't work, perhaps you should check out the text-based install and/or hardware compatibility issues. are these new cd burns? either way did you check the md5sum of your images and/or the condition of the cd's? it may be worth it to try to install elsewhere and see if the cd's work. if it's hardware, giving 10.1 a shot could only be worthwhile since newer hardware should be supported consequently.

hope these ideas help. at the install screen there's really not alot you can do.

kernel source is there. and concerning your nvidia problems, i don't think you're alone. but there should be at least 16 other threads that help out with that problem. i assume it'll be fixed in the next go of 10.1.

i've got mandrake 10.0 running on a insprion 5150 which has some pretty outlandish hardware. some of it wasn't supported so you really should go with the newest version. i think everything on yours is pretty safe. good luck.

ram is the ticket. i run mdk 10.1 ce on a thinkpad with a 233 and 192 MB RAM. i use window maker and it runs great. i've got a gentoo friend who believes fluxbox is the way to go. with the lesser video card, anything window manager that is easy on your card is a plus. i think fvwm2 is super light, but i wouldn't want it. window maker is nice and easy to use once you get used to it.