LinuxQuestions.org - Newbie here, mandrake connundrum.....?

baffled by this...have I built this wrong? should I be loading a different location boot partition? Here's what I copied from another forum, where, alas, nobody has a clue either. It this a build issue or is it a hardware incompatibility?

I have been trying to build a pure Mandrake server here, the whole thing in limbo:

Mandrake 9.1 will not recognize it's own extension "HardDrake" when installed! It only opens as LogDrake! Did I build something wrong? Is it a M-9.1 glitch?

ASUS CUV4X-DLS w/ (2) PIII 1400 on Powerleap adapters

3Gb ECC SDRAM (tried four but they won't all cooperate)

Boot drive is onboard SCSI channel A w/50Gb 7200rpm barracuda

RAID: Megaraid 1600 w/ 4 50Gb drives each chain (hoped to set up as RAID-10 BEHIND boot drive)

Simple minded AGP card 32m Nvidea, no trouble there

Rockwell Riptide modem (unused so far)

Riptide sound (never heard yet)

Various networks: 1 onboard, 1 DSL Verizon modem, 1 4-port network hub (none of these actually used so far)

Typical 1.44 floppy (no problems)

HP dvd-100i (works ok both ways)

A previous build with an IDE boot drive was largely successful, but I wiped and rebuit this way for an all SCSI system that would (hopefully) be all server functions needed in one box. I'd hoped to see this as a Linux box for DSL security, an in-house network server (router) and maybe a blog server in the future (hence the huge RAID 10 setup).

Is Mandrake 9.1 characteristically unable to fit in such a SCSI monster? Is there something I might change? Should I try M-10? As you can see I've spent a great deal of time and $$ on the pile of &##@^* and I'm fairly committed to getting it running.

Also: which server options should I choose at the prompt when installing? this problem may be solved there.

Thanks for your time and consideration, I hope you can at least get a chuckle out of this lunacy!

Ed

PS:just got a recent Mandrake 10 disc set, would that help? At the moment the hardware is scattered about my desk mixed with winebottles

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