[NCLUG] Mandrake 8.1 installed again.

[dmiles]

My experiance with mandrake was that, even though it was a smooth install, it was a horrible system to run. It was extreemly slow because I loaded so many things and it used up about 150MB of RAM on boot and went into swap within a few hours.

Now I read about people lauding the praises of Mandrake and I'm wondering if I did something wrong on the install... Can anybody think what that might have been?

On Fri, 02 Nov 2001 06:03:23 -0700, BOF <bof at pcisys.net> wrote:
> Les wrote:
> 
> > My only complaint so far is that I can't find xman on the system
> > yet.
> 
> I don't see xman on the RPMS page for Mandrake, so I wonder if it
> comes with it.
> 
> Have you tried the commands
> 
>     whereis xman
> 
> or
> 
>     find / -name "xman*"
> 
> to see if it is installed?
> 
> 
> > Also I'm trying to figure out how to re-order the boot loader so it
> > defaults to windows.
> 
> The man page "lilo.conf" covers this well. You'll need to add some
> lines to /etc/lilo.conf:
> 
>      prompt
>      timeout=50
>      default=win98
> 
> and the stanza
> 
>      other = /dev/hda1
>      table = /dev/hda
>      label = win98
> 
> This is assuming that Windows is installed on /dev/hda, the first hard
> drive and that it is in the first partition, /dev/hda1. If you don't
> want to call it  "win98", you can name it whatever. Just don't put any
> spaces in it, and keep it short.
> 
> The prompt and timeout will allow you to chose whichever you want at
> boot time, with the system waiting 5 seconds and then booting into
> win98.
> 
> Thus the full lilo.conf file will look something like this (this is
> from my RH setup, with lines for win98 added):
> 
>      boot=/dev/hda
>      map=/boot/map
>      install=/boot/boot.b
>      prompt
>      timeout=50
>      message=/boot/message
>      default=redhat
> 
>      image=/boot/vmlinuz
>       label=redhat
>       read-only
>       root=/dev/hda6
> 
>      other=/dev/hda1
>       table=/dev/hdb
>       label=win98
> 
> 
> Don't forget to run /sbin/lilo -v after editing the /etc/lilo.conf
> file to set the changes before rebooting.
> 
> BOF
> 
> 
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