How well should Mandrake 10 run on my comp?

zidane2010 · 03-31-2004, 08:41 AM

Hi all. Im asking this because i just built a new compuer and i couldnt get SuSE to accept my motherboard drivers after an online update. hence, i could no longer access the internet. my specs are:

MSI K7N2 DELTA nForce2 400 ultra motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ BARTON
512 MB DDR 266
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128mb

I also dual boot with XP. i heared there is a bug in Mandrake 10 which does not allow you to boot into windows. is there a easy fix for this?

thanks in advance

zidane2010 · 03-31-2004, 08:46 AM

I have done a little reading and saw that this dual boot problem is a bug with the partition untility in the mdk 10 setup. so since SuSE has done all my partitioning already, i should be fine, correct?

beejayzed · 03-31-2004, 03:00 PM

Actually, i didn't even know that bug existed. I can dual boot just fine, although I didn't do any resizing of partitions in the installer.
So i guess if you've already done your partitioning(I had) then it should be just fine.

dude_a_b_c · 03-31-2004, 03:19 PM

Yes, going through bugs /user experiences on internet, I have also read about a partitioning bug. However, I simply reformatted my existing linux partitions (barring /home) during the install, not touching ntfs/fat partitions.
So, since I did not touch the win partitions, I guess there was no problem.

greenzee · 04-01-2004, 09:45 AM

I took the Mandrake plunge last week (my first Linux install), and have a similar PC config as you list, except for a Duron 1.6. I currently run a Matrox dual head vidcard. K7N2 Delta works like a charm, onboard sound and LAN included. M10 is very responsive, although I can't say it feels any more so than Win2k on the same PC. On that note, I dual boot Win2k and Mandrake, but I do so via lilo on a floppy. I did not touch my HD MBR. I actually just copied the floppy to a bootable CDR which seems to work very well.

Have fun.

zidane2010 · 04-01-2004, 10:19 AM

so the K7N2 delta is automatically detected and installed in the mandy 10 2.6.3 kernel? sweet... thats what i wanted.

greenzee · 04-01-2004, 11:02 AM

I had no real troubles with my install at all, and it was my first Linux-anything experience. I was having "trouble" with my onboard ethernet not being detected, but after paying closer attention to the network configuration during a reinstallation I think it was just my oversight.

Chaostar · 05-10-2004, 01:44 AM

I could never get my K7N2 Delta-L to install Mandrake 10.0 Community, when booting it says something about my hard disk, that it cannot access the partitions, or something like that. I have two NTFS partitions: a 10gb system and a 70gb data partition, nothing strange. But it hangs there and I cannot do more. Help???

THANKS
Martin

greenzee · 05-11-2004, 10:29 AM

I used Partition Magic to create a 10gb Linux partition on my 120 gb drive, which to that point was split into multiple NTFS partitions. I installed Mandrake to the 10gb partition (obviously), which it recognized during install with no problem.

kamstrup · 05-11-2004, 12:25 PM

Chaostar: Have you tried Mdk10 Official? Community isn't really *stable*, and upgrade solved quite a few probs fro me...

greetings,
kamstrup