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My First time Linux Experience.
emh:
I'd pick Red Hat over Gentoo personally, because, from what I've heard, Gentoo isn't exactly the most user-friendly distro there is (of course, having not tried it myself, I can't say that for certain).
mobrien_12:
quote:Originally posted by Oddzball:
Ok so technically i got it limping. I'm thinking of saying screw mandrake and going to try redhat, though its a pain in the ass to have to download 3 cds again.
Cd1 of my mandrake distro always seems to have errors when installing stuff. I even re downloaded and reburned it and its still bad, so im just gonna have to go with a different distro of linux.
Gentoo or redhat seem like good choices. I dont really see a difference between the different types anyway personally..
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The problems you have listed are really atypical. It may be that the CD image you downloaded was damaged. I was especially puzzled by the problems with the Voodoo 3 because Linux support for V3,V4,and V5 is really quite good. Right now I have a V5 on one of my boxes and it didn't give me any problems on install.
I'd really suggest you run an MD5sum on any ISO image you download. MD5sum will examine a file and generate a string of characters based on the file contents. Linux ISO mirrors put a small file (usually in the same ftp directory) containing the string that they generated with md5sum. If they match, then you know you didn't get any corruption during your download, before you potentially waste time burning a bad image to CD.
MD5sum comes with most linux distros. You can download versions for windows if you need to.
BTW, my last mandrake install was like 3 or 4 years ago, so I can't comment on the Mandrake install process. I can tell you that I've had very good results with RH installs.
Refalm:
quote:Oddzball: The real problem im having now is that when i go to the little add and remove packages thing and try to add more packages it asks me to put the linux cd in, and when i do it seems to not realize it, and keeps ejecting the cd and telling me to put linux instal cd 2 in the drive. Unfortunately it is in the drive, so im unable to add new packages when i need them.
Anyone know how i can add packages (like open office for example) and get the stupid thing to recognize the cd that is in the drive?
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Why did you burn the CD's in the first place?
I unpacked the ISO's, put them all in one directory on C:\, inserted a Mandrake bootdisk and installed from there.
I'm not sure, but I think the package installer looks there for the CD-ROM's.
Doctor V:
quote:Originally posted by Oddzball:
Gentoo or redhat seem like good choices. I dont really see a difference between the different types anyway personally..
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Hahaha
Install red hat and when your done install gentoo and then tell me if you see a difference between the different types.
Gentoo and Red Hat are about as far apart as Linux Distro's come. Mandrake is a distro that looks like Red Hat.
I wouldn't recommend Gentoo to someone who hasn't touched Linux before, its alot more tedious and less straightforeward than redhat or mandrake. However, if your willing to spend some time reading and have paitence, you could install Gentoo and get a system the is perfectly tailored to your hardware and gives as good performance as Linux can get.
insomnia:
Considering:
*You seem to have HW probing difficulties.
*You don't seem to like GNOME.
*You don't like burning ISOs again.
*You had configuration and packaging problems
You might like doing this:
SuSE 8.2, ftp installation.
http://www.suse.com/us/private/download/suse_linux/index.html
Yast is a very usefull tool for easy installation , configuration and package management.
Just be sure you read the installation guide.
[ October 10, 2003: Message edited by: insomnia ]
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