[NCLUG] Mandrake 8.1 installed again.

[shaggydan]

To tell you the truth I'm not sure. When I did it I was not the linux guru
I am today (for those of you who don't me, read "joking"). I was most
likely starting a lot of servers and I started X only once and that didn't
take up any significant amount of memory (no more than it does on any
other distro). My overall impression was that it turned my machine into a
very slow macintosh and I didn't like it.

Mandrake is built on RH, correct? What is the advantage of running
Mandrake? Please believe me that this is not a rehtorical question, I'm
really not informed about it...

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On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, M Butcher wrote:

> Hmmm... that's interesting. I have three systems running 8.1, and I haven't 
> experienced that sort of thing with any of them. One of them only has 64M of 
> RAM in it (and it's a K6-2), and though I could probably get it to start 
> swapping if I tried, daily use (Mozilla, XMMS, Enlightenment) hasn't done it.
> 
> Maybe some more specifics would help. How many services are you starting at 
> boot? Are you running a lot of servers? What desktop apps are you running? 
> What are you usually doing when it starts swapping?
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> On Saturday 03 November 2001 09:10, you wrote:
> > 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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