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I can't remember where I read it, but it was a couple of months ago, probably in Linux Format. I understand that someone has developed a Linux program to enable users to connect to AOL. The trouble with AOL is that it uses non-standard connection method and supplies its own Windows and Mac software to connect, so the poor old Linux user is left out in the cold again. The good news is that, as always, someone is working on it!
Suggest an internet search. I always start at www.google.com/linux
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I'd try installing onto the 40gig H.D. without your XP disk even connected, with your 40gig hd as master... Theres an off chance that it isnt mandrake OR the hard disk, rather the IDE controller sitting between the two.
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Another possible bug is that Mandrake uses loop partitions for swap, and this is not a good idea for installation unless the installation program writer knew what he was doing, which from my (fortunately) limited experience of Mandrake is highly unlikely.
Given that it seems to be increasingly fashionable once again to use soft IRQ handlers, an idea which every computing generation comes up with and then learns to reject usually after career-ending disasters, I suspect that there is here some sort of "double whammy" whereby the install kernel loses the thread of linking the hardware partitions to temporary and future filesystem directory labels.
The first release of Mandrake 10 was littered with bugs: the originator of Mandrake however is conceited even by French standards (he's a relation, alas) and can't take advice.
The best thing frankly, is to try another version of Linux. Mandrake is unlikely to survive much longer with the number of programmer feuds and their southern attitude to money and deadlines.
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I have installed Mandrake 10.1OE on my laptop because it only has 128Mb RAM and so I cannot get PClinuxOS to load onto it due to lack of memory.
I'm not sure Mandrake is as bad as all that, but certainly I feel it has lost its way a little since versions 9.1 and 9.2. I also think that part of Mandrake's strength and appeal, apart from its ease of installation, was the PLF and Texstar alternate builds which certainly made Mandrake a powerful all-rounder.
That is why I put a great plug on this site for PCLOS, which is a Mandrake fork. Ease of installation has been taken to another level, ease of maintenance has been mainly retained from Mandrake except that Synaptic has replaced urpmi as the graphical rpm manager, including a rpm-ised version of apt-get.
Certainly I would recommend it to Newbies here who are struggling with Mandrake and SuSE.
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Hi all,
On the advice that I was given by some of you guy's I decided to invest in a second hand base unit. I came away with an Athlon XP 2000 chip, and more importantly, a motherboard without a SIS chipset (As Malc said, there is a compatibility issue with this chipset running Linux). My new (secondhand) M/B has a VIA chipset, and Linux Mandrake installs without having to enter the command line! I'm still not online with my second unit (Linux) yet, I've been looking at these KVM switches, (Wife not too pleased with the idea of 2 PC's so we compromised, KVM!!!) Plus! I'm on the look out for a decent ADSL modem router, 2 or 3 port should be sufficient. Any ideas??? Thanks for all your help in solving the problem I had with Mandrake.
Cheers
Jason
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As for the ADSL unit, this is how it works:
If you get a USB unit, it depends on whether the unit works under Linux.
If you get an ethernet unit, it depends whether the ethernet card in your computer works under Linux.
Nearly all ethernet units work, and if not, you can get a cheap PCI card that does. Finding out a USB unit does not work could be an expensive mistake.
So get an Ethernet unit.
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Sound advice, that. My basic adsl modem/router (go for 4 ethernet ports in case the other half does relent on using both computers separately) and Realtek PCI ethernet card work fine with Linux. I gave up waiting for my PCI ADSL modem manufacturer to provide Linux support. All this stuff (+ network cable) can be had on eBay pretty cheaply, or try your local computer fair.
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