Frank McPherson: LinuxLog

Mandrake 8.2 is now installed and from just a preliminary run through I would say that it is improved over version 8.1. I have particularly noticed the speed improvements. Right now I don't have enough time to play more with the installation.

I found a round tuit today and got around to installing Mandrake 8.2. At first I tried to upgrade my existing installation, but that did not go well. On the first boot the boot loader complained about hdb, and nothing that I could do got Mandrake loaded. It kept wanting to drop me into command line mode to let me fix things, but I didn't have the foggiest idea how to do that. It's not like Linux has a simple format command.

So, I decided to start all over and right now I am doing a fresh install of Mandrake Linux 8.2. Along the way I formatted the disks such that hda contains root and swap and hdb contains home. We'll see if the second time is the charm for this thing.

I've started playing with Linux. I have installed Mandrake Linux 8.1 on a Dell Optiplex GXm that has a 300 Mhz Pentium II processor, 128 MB of RAM, and two 6 GB hard disks, and the computer's name is gandalf. Right now hda is partitioned in /, swap and /home. hdb only has a swap partion and two blocks of free space.

I've been able to browse network shares, but not really access files nor mount those shares.

For some reason right now the Internet connection does not automatically start. Gandalf is on a LAN, which shares a cable modem connection. He has a 3Com network card configured with a static IP address. I can manually start the connection but when I reboot the computer the Internet connection is not started.