View Full Version : Takin the plunge into Mandrake 81.
Ok well after doing all the playing around with the Overfoldix stuff and using it on my PPro setup waiting for a VRM to show up I fiugred what the hell. I am at present installing Mandrake 8.1 onto it.
I was going to put WinXP on it once the VRM came in. The one thing thats stopped me for now with doing it is that I dont have a floppy drive attached and I need it to install the scsi drivers that are onboard. Which I am using with a scsi 10k seagate drive.
Well I have tried Mandrake before but got annoyed when it just didnt work quite right on the system I had at the time. heh, yea I am a very impatient kinda guy!
I have to say that so far Mandrake has impressed me, it had the drivers for the onboard scsi right off the bat. Which was real nice IMO.
Basiclly, what Im sayin is that I might have to start buggin some of all yeall *nix folks for a lil while so I can get the hang of this OS.
Just so you know the stats on it before hand.
PR440FX Motherboard ~ PPro
200mhz w/512 cache (Will be getting VRM for other very soon, already purchased, am waiting on delivery)
128 ECC Reg EDO mem
40x IDE CDRom
9gig Seagate Cheetah 10krpm SCSI drive
A very generic PCI Video card, cant recall exacts on it ATM
I have a TV Card that I would like to have work in it, anyone know if I might have probs here with this? Its a hauppage or something or other. I have the original disc that came with it. Guess Ill have to see if they are on it soon.
Um.... Generic Mon 15"
Gen keyboard
AOpen Laser Mouse ~ Actually got it working right in the install. heh kewl... LoL
Ok, well so all the *nix folks know, Ill prolly be buggin yea laters.
So here comes the plunge into Linux!
Smizack
08-13-2002, 09:53 PM
I personally am glad you're using linux. I like it more everyday I use it. I'm sure you will also.
But, it (at least Red hat) runs crappy on slower systems. Mine was very slow on an old system that ran XP decently fast.
Just a heads up. Good luck man!;)
Oh, and on your tv card. If the drivers are there it will work, but Linux won't ask you for the driver disc like Windows. It dosen't care about the manufacturer of the card, just what chipset is on it.
Heh, thanks. So far Mandrake isnt running to great either. Could be due to its still setting everything up.
One thing that has me a lil confused is when its running the Network and net config, it asks for a host name.... And to be honest, Im not to sure exactly what its wanting... Im thinkin maybe that Im on cox.net(my isp), but that doesnt make sense, even if that is it, what do I put in?
Well this is a post from my PPro rig using Mozilla... heh... didnt know what the browser was for this thing. Then sa Mozilla and recognized it.... LoL
Not to happy so far though... as you pointed out smiz this is very slow...
Not sure if i want to take the full plunge and put it onto my Dual Tyan..... HHhrmm
FUGGER
08-13-2002, 10:32 PM
DHCP should have been a default on installation, network card was not identified on install?
Find your DNS servers, lookup cox.net at netsol.com in the whois database to find numbers quickly.
edit the file:
/etc/resolve.conf
Add the line:
hostresorder local bind
nameserver 24.234.xx.xxx <-- put in your DNS IP's and exit
ipconfig should give you ec0 information including your IP if you were assigned one DHCP already.
You should know your cox.net IP scheme, hijack a IP address at the top, 68.1.x.254 and manually set your IP address. You should be able to ping around on the network hopefully, and if you can you should also be able to resolve DNS
Hopefully I make some sense.
Originally posted by FUGGER
Hopefully I make some sense.
Sorry, not a clue.. LoL
But Ive been able to get it only, that last post was using the Mandrake.
It wont download however... hrm... God this sucks big ones... Cant tell if its due to the machine just being slow or something just not being done right.. arg.... hrmm...
Smizack
08-13-2002, 10:36 PM
Originally posted by FUGGER
DHCP should have been a default on installation, network card was not identified on install?
Find your DNS servers, lookup cox.net at netsol.com in the whois database to find numbers quickly.
edit the file:
/etc/resolve.conf
Add the line:
hostresorder local bind
nameserver 24.234.xx.xxx <-- put in your DNS IP's and exit
ipconfig should give you ec0 information including your IP if you were assigned one DHCP already.
You should know your cox.net IP scheme, hijack a IP address at the top, 68.1.x.254 and manually set your IP address. You should be able to ping around on the network hopefully, and if you can you should also be able to resolve DNS
Hopefully I make some sense.
On a cable connection you shouldn't have to do that tho.
As long as eth0 or 1 passes. I'm assuming it's a dynamic IP also.
FUGGER
08-13-2002, 10:51 PM
Yes the network card must be compatable with install or you get hosed and manually have to configure the networking.
Normally it will work great with cablemodem after the install with DHCP.
Dramen
08-19-2002, 10:45 AM
fyi
to speed up hardisk access in linux go to /etc/sysconfig/harddisks and edit the file (harddisks) and remove all the hash marks # to enable the tweaks. Before doing so run hdparm to test the speed, ya have to be root.
eg, hdparm -t /dev/hda just change the hda to hdb if linux is on your 2nd disk.
then you will see the results and then after you make the tweak reboot and test again.
mine on Mandrake 9.0 beta3
before: 4.56 MB/s
after: 35.75 MB/s
If you don't have the harddisks file in /etc/sysconfig (older versions of mdk and other distros might not} then give a holler and I can show you another way, unless of course you guys know this stuff already. :D
JBELL
08-19-2002, 10:59 AM
Originally posted by Smizack
I personally am glad you're using linux. I like it more everyday I use it. I'm sure you will also.
But, it (at least Red hat) runs crappy on slower systems. Mine was very slow on an old system that ran XP decently fast.
Just a heads up. Good luck man!;)
Oh, and on your tv card. If the drivers are there it will work, but Linux won't ask you for the driver disc like Windows. It dosen't care about the manufacturer of the card, just what chipset is on it.
I remember talking to skip about linux one day... at teh time he said in his linux user group mandrake is a very poor performer under heavy server loads.... and even though it is very similar to red hat - red hat is better suited for server actions where as mandrake is more or less better for workstations.
Heh, ok.... unsubscribed to thread.... .......... way beyond me here.....................................
sjohnson
08-19-2002, 02:34 PM
The reason Mandrake and RedHat run "crappy" is most likely due to software bloat. Not a task for the beginner, but trimming out the fat would make that crappy system that ran XP OK seem like twice the machine it was under XP.
Why oh why have the mainstream Linux distros gone to bloat... (I know why, just moaning here).
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