[NTLUG:Discuss] Mandrake questions

[./aal]

Chris Cox wrote:
> 
> Not that this is typical...but one of the guys at our office tried
> to install Mandrake 7.1 on his machine at home (it was running
> an older Linux I think), and it failed... could not even
> install.  He borrowed my SuSE 6.4 CD's, and had no problems
> with it.... YMMV.
> 


Their graphical install does not work on all hdwr.
There is an option to pass at boot which starts the text based
install(RH & MDK 5.x-like) and this would have allowed the install
to succeed.


eyes and ears
(My two senses worth)

./aal