Mandrake Up & Running
- April 25, 2003
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I posted earlier about ordering Mandrake Linux 9.1 PPC. I STILL haven’t received the CDs yet. Luckily, I was Captain Impatient and asked a friend of mine with a fat connection to download the CDs for me yesterday. By this morning, he had the first CD downloaded and was almost done with the second. I had him burn the first CD for me and take it to work with him, so I could go install it on my Powerbook there.
I was very excited about finally being able to install Mandrake. So when I booted off the CD and told it to install using the GUI, I was extremely unnerved to see the display completely screwed up. I couldn’t install because I couldn’t read everything. The colors were off and the resolution was wrong. I spent an hour and a half at his work trying to install it. Tried installing in text mode. Tried installing with the old GUI. No go. I took it home and looked on the Internet for help with installing it. Because it’s so new, I only found information on Mandrake 8.2. Another hour and a half later, I finally booted from the CD again and reread the simple instructions. I finally got the installer to look and work right when I typed in
install-gui gui-old video=atyfb128 (rage 128)
Lo and behold, it worked!
Unfortunately, since I only have the first CD right now, I couldn’t do a full install. But what I was able to install so far I really like. It’s a lot more user-friendly than Red Hat. I haven’t set up Internet access or file-sharing yet, but will when I get the other CDs. I can ping my Macs and my other Linux box fine, so that’s good.
I’ll post more later when I have installed everything else.