[ltp] T22/DVD Mandrake Won't install

[SOTL]

On Wednesday 22 December 2004 01:59 pm, Dave wrote:
> That truly sucks. I haven't been following the thread as to why that
> mandrake requires the
> floppy drive? Couldn't MDK have included the drivers on installs?

They did if you have the box set disk. I do not know about download as I am 
running this box through a WiFi transfer to the next building which is slower 
than dial up. In fact I would most times perfer dial up. So on download I 
don't know. But, as far as the box set I posted how to make the Additional 
Drivers Disk several months back. What I did not know when I posted that was 
that if you decide to add programs you have to do a reinstall as there is no 
way for Mandrake 10.x to access the additional programs with out the 
Additional Drivers which can not be accessed by the add programs routine.

Mandrake has been noted as a half ass distribution for a number of years. In 
the 9.x distribution, I had 9.0 and I currently have 9.1 & .2., 9.x I wanted 
to use Qt for something. Now at that stage I had never used Qt so first I 
installed it off the disk, then I spent a month trying to understand why it 
would not function correctly. In the end I found that Mandrake left one file 
out and forgot to configure Qt to work on a system that used only one 
processor. I solved that issue by copying the multi processor configuration 
to the single process configuration and continued on. These are the type of 
things that really piss me off as since I can not download with out high 
speed connection and don't have the time I purchase box sets and then get 
shit on by receiving half ass slopped together soft ware. 

If you haven't figured it out by now 9.x install correctly but 10.x will not 
since Mandrake screwed up the installation configuration - again.

Frank

Oh! Back to SuSE which did install correctly up to networking where it ask for 
user name and password which I do not know for the DSL system. If I had DSL 
then this would have configured automatically and I would not have had to 
know the user name and password. Also DSL is somehow related to WiFi in that 
they are really the same except for the method of signal arrival. Point is 
DSL configuration is some how mixed up with WiFi configuration so since I 
could not configure DSL I could not configure WiFi.

Frank

> Anyways the good news, is that the laptop still has about 3 weeks of
> warranty left on it, I
> called IBM and they are sending me a new/replacement drive to me over
> night. So knock on wood
> that it's a issue with the drive.
>
> Any comment on running Fedora Core 3
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org
> [mailto:linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org] On Behalf Of SOTL
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 8:08 AM
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> Subject: Re: [ltp] T22/DVD Mandrake Won't install
>
> On Wednesday 22 December 2004 04:54 am, Winsley von Spee wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 21.12.2004, 23:09 -0500 schrieb Dave:
> > > I just got a new(well new for me) T22, just downloaded and burnt
> > > Mandrake 10.1 DVD. I'm trying to install it on the T22, but After
> > > the first boot screen from MDK, you can hit F1 or ENTER for Install.
> > > I hit enter, and at about half way on the progress bar it stops. I
> > > quickly tried a CD version of MDK 10.0 I had and that seems to work
> > > goes into the install.
> > >
> > > Anyone have a idea as to what could be the problem? Oh and the MD5
> > > is right, I made sure of that before I went ahead and burnt the DVD
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > Perhaps a problem with pcmcia or similar. Play with the bootoptions to
> > find the problem.
> >
> >
> > Greetz
>
> To install Mandrake 10.1 from DVD or CD you MUST have coppied the
> additional
>
> device drivers to a floppy and have that floppy in the floppy drive.
> If you do not have a floppy drive then it probably would be best to choose
> some other method of installation.
> If you downloaded Mandrake 10.1 I have no idea where you get the auxiliary
> device drivers off the CD or DVD.
> There was considerable discussion on this on this BB archives approximately
> 1
> or 2 months back with the final posting being mine describing in detail how
> I
> accomplished this. I would repost except I might miss a few details not
> having my notes with me.
>
> Frank
>
> PS: SuSE 9.2 installation is much easer than Mandrake 10.1.
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