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Re: [LUG] Re: Mandrake 9 and Knoppixx



On Friday 06 December 2002  1:38 pm, you wrote:
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On Friday 06 December 2002 8:18 am, keith lawford wrote:
(to the webmaster at dclug: )

Dear Sir

Nice but not necessary, 'Neil' will do. 'Oi, LUG' will work too.

Lol, "Oi, DCLUG, please help me, I'm stupid!" is my prefered becon call ;-)

I am thinking of changing from Suse 8 to Mandrake (, however in the past
I

There's no watertight reason to do that, you won't find an enormous
difference in the two, except in the configuration tools provided.

I thoroughly concur.  I've installed Mandrake for several years on my 
machines and have generally been very impressed (far easier than Windoze, 
especially when Windows 'cocks up' and wipes your linux partition).  I've 
also installed SuSE once, which was equally easy but incredibly similar... 
SuSE's green, Mandrake's blue, that's about it ;-)

Personally I'm more interested in Mandrake vs. Debian (for a non-broadband 
user)... <ducks>

http://www.dclug.org.uk/linux_doc/tips.html

Damn useful page, actually!  It tought me several things I didn't know...  
Cheers to whoever wrote it!

Could anyone advise me before I make
the move about how this problem could be overcome? Booting from floppy?

That's always an option (for Windows as well as Linux) but all the
bootloaders are capable of offering both options (although some versions of
Windows are NOT happy - if you are running Windows 2k or XPPro with certain
filesystem options set, you could have problems. Email the list if you are

I lent some Mandrake disks to a friend because I managed to persuade him that 
Linux was worth a try.  He found that linux installed fine, but Windows 
subsequently refused to boot!  Bloody typical... In a typical Windows-user 
stylie, he didn't email me, who probably would have consulted you guys, he 
just wiped it and installed XP again :-(  Which is presumably what Microsoft 
wanted...

So *persevere*, ask a helpful Linux guru (of which there are many, unlike 
with Windows, where everyone seems to use it but nobody knows how it works or 
how to fix it)!

I'm slowly converting my friends to Linux; it's a bit difficult as they are 
all quite used to Microsoft products (after having pirated them, cost is not 
a benefit of linux in this case; even a hardened [and reasonably well-off] 
Microsoftie admitted that the licence fees for Microsoft products were 
ridiculous).  But two successful converts so far, one of whom was French, 
both of whom are now very pleased with Linux!

Cheers,

Jon

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