patrick wrote:
>
> On Sunday 27 May 2001 09:31 pm, you wrote:
> > patrick wrote:
> > > On Sunday 27 May 2001 04:50 pm, you wrote:
> > > > Don't you get 30 or 60 days free support if you buy the distro? This
> > > > is an unusual problem that appears to be file system corruption.
> > > > Mandrake 8 is probably the best distro for a newbie, but it has so many
> > > > bleeding edge progs in it that it is not as stable as RedHat or SuSE.
> > >
> > > i have mandrake 8 in my amd machine for a few weeks now and
> > > have no stability problems. can u prove your statement. u cant
> > > by me.
> >
> > That is my experience and that of several folks I know who use it or
> > have used it. Actually,
> > Aron Hsiou made a similar comment in a book on Linux Security that I
> > have. Also, I suggest you read Bruce Schneier's recent book Secrets &
> > Lies. There is quite a bit of info in there about what can happen when
> > undebugged programs interact. This is not a rundown of Mandrake 8 - I
> > just bought a copy for a friend who wants to try linux. I am commenting
> > based on my level of knowledge - which is in no way naive. I am happy
> > you are using Mndk8 without any problems!
> > Smitty
>
> what i am finding is first of all most people dont set their bios
> properly for linux to work and secondly i am hearing that some
> people are having problems with mandrake. why arent i having
> any. im trying to figure this out and so far i cant really
> >
> > > and my point is we ALL have got to get rid of its not as good as
> > > my distro, or im gonna run down this distro to make mine look better.
> > > i have had no problems with mandrake 8. the only problem i have
> > > had is i cant seem to update my nvida drivers. hopefully in the
> > > near future we will be able to update video drivers in a little easier
> > > fashion.
> > >
> > > > Interactions of newly released modules have an inherent degree of
> > > > unpredictability. A friend of mine who is an experienced linux sys
> > > > admin reports to me that Mandrake 8, which he runs, has some
> > > > performance quirks. Take that on advisement. I tried mand8 for a week
> > > > and it broke on me.
>
> what kind of equiptment do u use and how did mandrake break.
I have a micronics motherboard circa late '97. When I transferred old
files over to the new directories, all the permissions went to root and
the box locked up to any users. I did not investigate it any more than
making the observation, as I had no leisure.
>
> > > > I can only make this suggestion: when you install any distro with the
> > > > 2.4.x kernel, use ext2fs on the boot partition and reiserfs (pronounced
> > > > "riser") on everything else. These seems to make for a very stable
> > > > combination.
> > > > Smitty
> > >
> > > that is the como i am using. i havent had a system since using ext2 on
> > > boot and reiserts on everyelse.
> > >
> > > > "Maureen L. Thomas" wrote:
> > > > > I cannot figure out why my Mandrake 8.0 system freezes on bootup. I
> > > > > get the following messages as it boots.
> > > > >
> > > > > EXT2-fs warning (device ide0 (3,70)): ext2_unlink: Deleting
> > > > > nonexisting file (114711), 0
> > > > > EXT2-fs warning (device ide0 (3,70)): ext2_unlink: Deleting
> > > > > nonexisting file (114712), 0
> > > > > EXT2-fs warning (device ide0 (3,70)): ext2_unlink: Deleting
> > > > > nonexisting file (114713), 0
> > > > >
> > > > > Then a little further down it freezes at Running Linuxconf hooks:
> > > > >
> > > > > I did a fsck on the partitions and they fixed a few items - no lost
> > > > > and found file - and that was about it. But when I rebooted with
> > > > > shutdown -r now it frooze in Linux and in Failsafe at the same
> > > > > place with the same messages. I have no clue where to go from here.
> > > > > Can someone lead me in the right direction. TIA Maureen
>
> i know this will probably sound crazy, but reinstall your linux and clean
> your drive up completely
>
> i just had my first failure with mandrake earlier tonight. i was using
> ext 2 to bott with reiserfts for everything else. i got a glich and computer
> locked up. i couldnt get out so i pull thr plug (not literally). the compulter
> rebotted very quickly, when rebooted my machine was very shaky
> in root very stable . strange. and also my konquerer wouldnt start.
> i tried to leave the drive alone and reinstall and couldnt till i cleaned
> the drive completely and then reinstalled. i was down for about 45
> minutes because i doing other things while i was waiting on the computer.
>
> > >
> i have a question for those in our group. if u have had a shaky
> mandrake or suse or whatever, have any of u just reinstalled
> to see if that would fix it. i am finding that not too people are doing
> this. i have had shaky installs of windoes, i dont see why this couldnt
> be possible with linux
>
>
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