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lazygamer:
So I've spent a bit of time with Libranet. Yes it definitly goes faster then Mandrake, but you guys indicate that it's only because of what Mandrake has load up that it goes slower.

Im wondering if I was too hasty to get rid of Mandrake. I just wanted speed, I thought Linux=uber fast and Mandrake wasn't living up to that ideal. However, Mandrake may be better in the end because it's so friendly.

Today I wanted to take a leisurely cruise through the Libranet manual. Ok so let's jam to some CD music. Pop the disk in and use the CD based play button. Hmmmm very low volume. There must be an option to crank it up somewhere. Although I found some sound things, no "Crank it up" stuff was present. In addition, the CD player didn't want to play my music CD. Heck, im not sure if Libranet fully acknowledged my CD drivs exsist, cuz it woulden't browse my other drive(with a data CD in it), even though it seemed to think it sort of existed. Now I did have a CD-RW in there, but it installed and booted ok off that very CD-RW disk.

In addition, Mandrake has an absolutely flawless bootloader. The grub bootloader under Libranet don't like windows. It acknowledges the exsistence of a windows partition, but try to boot off it(from grub), and it just drops me to a BASH command prompt.

There also appears to be other possible little Libranet niggles. So do you guys think I should just throw in the towel and go back to Mandrake, no matter how slow it may be? I guess it will take awile to learn how to optimize it, but damn im such a n00b...

Hehe I love my CD-RW disks. I overwrote Mandrake disk 3, now I can just D/L Mandrake disk 3 again and overwrite Libranet.  

So in closing, will Mandrake make a huge difference in my journey, ever if it is slooooow?

lazygamer:
Oh hell, maybe I'll just install Mandrake anyways.

Ok here's my questions.

1)What package selections will I NOT need? Package selections that would be for absolute nerds etc.
(C is fine, but stuff for l33t network operating geeks is not)

2)What services can I safely choose to knock off? Once again, there seems to be alot of nerd only stuff.

3)How can I make a disk that allows me to boot into Mandrake to right any BIG mistakes I make that prevents Mandrake from booting? Unless of course that's what the bootdisk does. REMEMBER, I cannot survive a shell. What I really need is something that will save me the time of 1.5hrs of re-installing Mandrake if I fuck up. Even some "auto default settings restorer bootdisk" would be great.

4)Anything I can do to speed up Mandrake after it's installed?

I don't care how techie it is(well perhaps...), step by step=something I can always do.

Stryker:
your cd problem...
the data cd probably was not mounted, and you probably don't have an audio cable from your cd drive to your sound card (which is usually required for the music part). but i wouldn't know for sure, as i can't see it. on kde's desktop, rightclick and go to new->cd/dvd device
and then on the right tab see if they are all there. then just cancel out. if it is there make sure you mount the drive before using it, otherwise you'll likely get nothing. (no need to mount for the audio cds though)

choasforages:
mount /mnt/cdrom

that should mount the cd

or cat /etc/fstab to find out where the system wants the cdrom mounted

as for music

the wonders or aumix

type in
aumix

in the console, there, you should be able to figure out how to use it from there, as for bootscripts, just give us a list of boot scripts in the init directroy, and i can try to figure out what does what

choasforages:
as for speed, try the XFS enhanced version of redhat. it is redhat 7.3, and you need four discs, the disk off of sgi's site and the normal redhat 7.3 disks, but last time i used that verison it ran very fast.

and go buy a linux book, and read it cover to cover.

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