On Sunday 13 May 2001 05:52 pm, you wrote:
> I have only been with Linux about a year so am definitely a newbie. I just
> installed Mandrake 8.0 (ordered disks from linuxcentral). Only had an
> install disk and an extension disk and had problems with the extension disk
> during the install. It would not recognize the second disk as installation
> disk two so had to do it manually after the install.
> Anyway, I was very pleased to see that it recognized everything, both hard
> drives, the built in sound chip, the video card, the zip drive, even my
> modem. The only problem I have is when on line the modem stalls a lot, but
> had that problem with 7.0 and with SuSE when I was playing with that
> distro. It was extremely easy to install and I have not had any other
> problems. This would be the distro I would recommend to people coming over
> from the other OS, (winblows).
if u have a dial up modem i would recommnd setting the
time out seconds to 60 instead of 30. that should fix u up
i hope . i use mandrake 8 too. its wonderful and dont forget
to set aliasing on.
>
> I use my machine as a desktop mainly. My programming ability is enough for
> me to write a few small programs for my collecting hobbies. I do some
> graphics for the county fire department benevolence and CISM team, but
> nothing drastic. Now if I could just get my games to run in Linux I would
> permanently and forever GET RID of winblows.
>
> I am running a home built AMD Duron 850MHz, with a FIC motherboard with VIA
> KT133B, two Western Digital hard drives, one 10.4 GB, one 40GB, both
> ATA100, one internal Zip 100, ActionTec 56K modem, and a built in Sound
> Blaster chip. Three fans, one the heat sink that came with the Duron chip,
> one on the back wall and one pci fan. 512 MB SDRAM PC133.
nice setup
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