sometime in the future try mandrake 8.0 and see what happens.
be sure and turn off plug and play in bios.
laters
On Friday 11 May 2001 06:42 pm, you wrote:
> NO FLAMES PLEASE!
>
> I just got a new 1 GHz athlon and tryed to install linux on it. I was not
> impressed. I
> mean Ive used linux for 4 years now and never had MAJOR problems but this
> was
> ridiculous. Red Hat 7, Caldera 2.4, and Mandrake 7.1 won't install. First
> none
> could find my ATA/100 card so i had to switch to ATA/66 to get it to work.
> Next,
> It would not finish installation on RedHat and Mandrake. Caldera finished
> but
> crapped out on first boot! It plain froze. Now heres where it gets really
> scary:
> Windows Me has run on this machine for a month without rebooting serving as
> a
> proxy/printer server/file server/network firewall/gaming system. Of course
> it did all
> this at same time. Usually I find myself running Nintendo 64 emulators on
> top of
> firewalling/proxy software. I also share printers and files. I also have an
> average of
> 10-20 browser windows open. and when i have work i have word2k open. and
> just for kicks ill open adobe photoshop on top of all that. i still find an
> average of 70%
> resources free! yes i know its sickening and i would like linux on my main
> system but
> i still use it on my laptop :) all i know is i have the only system in
> existence to love, yes
> love windows me. (no i dont worship satan :) well just thought i would
> share my odd
> story.
>
> bye all,
> Travis
>
> ( : PEACE <3 LOVE < : LINUX
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul M Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
> To: <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 6:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] GGRRR (not really linux related)
>
> > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:09:36PM -0400, A. Harry Harrison wrote:
> > > I think VB has been the single biggest downfall of Windows. I've worked
>
> on
>
> > > computers for over 20 years and think this whole Microsoft bashing
> > > thing
>
> is
>
> > > a big crock. I've had Linux crash and burn enough times to know that,
>
> while
>
> > > maybe not as often as Windows (which IMHO is not nearly as often as
> > > most
>
> MS
>
> > > bashers like to claim), when it does it is a whole lot messier to clean
>
> up
>
> > > then a simple Windows BSOD. Granted, to run Linux in a "server" mode
>
> with
>
> > > stable software it can't be beat. It will pretty much run forever
>
> without a
>
> > > care, and that is it's biggest strength. But as a desktop environment
>
> it's
>
> > > neither more stable nor more manageable.
> > >
> > > Anyone who has been at this for a while (and MOST Linux enthusiast
> > > have, because it is not an OS for the inexperienced) will remember
> > > cutting
>
> their
>
> > > teeth on some form of BASIC. Of course, they will also remember quickly
> > > learning that BASIC was not the development environment of serious
> > > applications. So now there is a whole new generation of self proclaimed
> > > "programmers" because they can hack out code in Visual Basic. And
> > > people LOVE to download and clog up their system with this stuff... and
> > > as the original post says, some people actually pay thousands of
> > > dollars for
>
> this
>
> > > stuff! I won't begrudge Bill Gates his billions because he has enabled
> > > thousands of buffoons to become self proclaimed "VB gurus". If anything
>
> I
>
> > > envy the guy, I sure wish I was worth several billions right now
> > > without
>
> a
>
> > > care in the world.
> >
> > I suspect that more than half of the Linux users out there would
> > disagree with you on the stability of Linux. I've wedged Linux before as
> > well, but it's a lot harder to do than on Windows. And I can absolutely
> > attest that under load, I can crash Windows a minimum of three times a
> > day without any unusual effort. Linux? No chance, again, unless I really
> > try.
>
> <snip>
>
> > Paul
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