Installed Mandrake Linux, now what? Please help!

bigjohn · 07-17-2003, 06:13 PM

Mandrakes site has an A to Z of mandrake linux - not sure if you have to be a club member though?

regards

John

p.s. most of the available books are "non-specific" - though if you check out amazon, then you will find stuff on say, redhat, or debian and so on

Proud · 07-18-2003, 12:54 PM

FYI I and a few others here on this board have had the dreaded

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Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'

error, and the only solution seems to be to reinstall Mandrake, or at least force reinstall just the X packages.

dizzyflower28 · 07-18-2003, 04:52 PM

I've tried reinstalling twice with no luck. I think I may try one more time and then try Red Hat (again). And then maybe (and I pray that I don't have to) buy XP or 2000. I wish it could just install correctly!

Proud · 07-18-2003, 04:55 PM

Did you download the cds? If so did you checksum them for errors in downloading and in burning?

dizzyflower28 · 07-18-2003, 05:45 PM

Yes, I downloaded the cds & no, unfortunately I didn't test them. How do I go about doing that? I have got an error about it not being able to install the games part of KDE but that's all.

fancypiper · 07-18-2003, 08:55 PM

Load linux mediacheck rather than the install program.