Moses wrote:
Last time I checked (a couple months back) Ubuntu was rated top (taking the long standing position from mandrake). Shuttleworth assembled a team of the best in the industry to develope ubuntu, so I wouldn't laugh it off.
Just a follow up on this. I tried installing Ubuntu yesterday after resizing partitions and leaving free space for it to work with. Install seemed quite good, then I had to partition my free space manually which was a little annoying. Then after it took a really long time to install it rewrote the MBR and didn't add Windows to the bootloader. So it made my Windows inaccesible. Obviously I know how to fix it, install Mandrake 10.1 over Ubuntu and Mandrake did add Windows to the list and was much quicker to install even though it is 3 discs and Ubuntu was one.
If anyone wants Ubuntu discs come visit and you can have them, I'm playing frisbee with them otherwise. What a waste of time!
Maybe someone can help me. My Mandriva installation went fine and everything works, except I have no sound!
My Soundblaster Live (Value) was detected and is on the hardware list, with the emu10k driver installed. But still no sound. When I open the mixer application, it says there is no sound device connected (or something like that, don't have the linux system in front of me at the moment). Any ideas what I can do? I've tried other drivers on the list like the audigy and sb16, but still no luck. I don't understand why it shows up in the hardware profile and does not show any problems, but still does not work.
hmmm. download the latest drivers of the creative website. believe it or not they actually have linux drivers. duno what else could be wrong. hey azgard im intersted. seems the post office stole mine
I managed to install Mandriva on a partition with minimal disruption to Windows. (I only needed to re install once) I have two sata HDD 120 GB, linux sees only two of the three partitions on my boot drive and it sees the partition on my second HDD. my partitions are in NTFS except my linux partion which is in ext3.
Help!!! all my games are on the invisible partitionl.
Linux registers that the drive is partitioned but it can't see the game's partition.
I also can't get linux to see my brother's pc on the network, in fact i don't know to even get to the network screen and look for other pc's.
Well, I installed Mandriva with a few errors reading disc 2, os it cost me three more disc but still I had the errors. Luckily it started up without any hassles. Windows still works fine, coz windows and mandriva is on two different drives and I've built a hardware drive selector into my case so that I only turn the pc off and switch wich one I want as master. Allthough lilo boots windows without problems, disc access seems slower than when I switch the drive orders.
At installation time the installer asks if you want to copy all media to disk. But it didn't help me with the errors I just kept on clicking to continue the install.
Cause I have wasted 5 cd's...those didnt even get to the installation part. Using 3 RW's and they get to the installation but give me lots of errors. SUSE and the previous versions of Mandrake never gave me these issues.
I saw that you can install it from a dos bootable stiffy but i cant find where i saw it. Even google turns up empty (of useful info).
Did you use the iso's on the pcf disk? If so maybe they're faulty. But as I say, I kept on letting the installer pass through the errors. As I use mandriva and I find something incorrectly installed or not at all, I just download them from the web and install them manually.
Just finished install Mandriva on my Linux computer, no problems. Although I didn't do a "Clean" Install, I had Mandrake 10.1 Community on it (I've been using Mandrake since 7.something or other)
For those of you who are wondering what the "Swap" Partition is for, that is the linux equivelant to a page file (Or virtual memory)
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Does that mean that i need two partitioins for linux, one main and one swap. That is frustrating and yet my linux is running fine on its own 10gig partition.
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Installed last nite, no problems, no errors, everything stable... just need to sort out my tv tuner card but im sure it wont work... even played UT2004, yes on Linux you can play games *not 2 b taken seriously* :onfire:
I tried installing Mandriva on my second Hard Drive this weekend and got as far as the installer trying to load drivers for "nVidia CK804 sata_nv , etc." when I got the following error message:
"An error ocurred. No valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems. Please check your hardware
for the cause of the problem."
Now I'm pretty sure that my hardware is not faulty
as Fedora Core 3 installs just fine and even picks up my display adapter
What think you?
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