Complete Install of Mandrake 9.2 or 10.0 (all packages)
 

Hey

Has anyone successfully installed all of the packages from Mandrake (9.2 or 10.0) and gotten it to work without much tweaking?

I mean, on that page that asks you if you want games, office, server stuff, ftp, apache, docs, etc., everything gets selected.

A simple Yes/No is a good response, but if you can chronicle any difficulties or settings that you had to do by hand, that'd be appreciated.



I just tried to do a "complete install" with 9.2 and having it not automatically go into X, but the X server gave me some problems and I'm probably going to do a clean reinstall without tweaking the daemons that get loaded.

BTW: I only installed one windowing environment, KDE, so that probably isn't the source of the problems.


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THE BACKSTORY

I am looking to load linux that can run ftp, mail, and webserving with mysql and php. Never got a server working before, so this is just for learning. Going to run it without a monitor, so I am hoping to be able to remotely log into it. Would like to be able to run X so that I might be able to run some X windows applications.

Since this is a learning computer, I figured that I might as well install everything. But this didn't quite work, so I'm just checking if there is a reason I shouldn't.

Any tips on what daemons to run would also be appreciated.

Thanks!

if you find that everything didn't install, it's no big deal. you can install/remove any pacakge you want after the fact. on the desktop, open a terminal (konsole would be good if you're using KDE). at the login prompt, type su (enter) then your root password (enter) to give yourself root priveleges. now type mcc (enter). that will open the Mandrake Control Center. from there you can configure your whole system as you desire. you can also add/remove packages. first thing you should do, before anything else, is get all available updates. go to software management->updates. click on that, choose a mirror from the list, then get all updates it shows you need. if a mirror is down or not responding, click media manager->highlight the update source->click remove, save it, click updates again & choose a different mirror. you can use the software install section to browse all available software & install what you like. conversely, use remove software to uninstall things.

a good place to visit to set up alternate package sources is Easy URPMI. go there, follow the instructions to add extra sources. i'd highly recomend adding "contrib", "main", & "plf". stay away from "cooker" sources for now. they are bleeding edge/works in progres apps that can be very unstable at times.

also, in MCC, go to system->services to see what daemons (services) are currently running. use the info buttons next to each one to read what they're for. some are neccessary for the system to run, so be careful not to shut things off that you need.

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