I put Mandrake on my second computer today...holy shit.
I will never use Mandrake again.
After installing, LILO opened up. Sweet! I'm good to go!
Well, shit. My luck ran out. When I tried to boot Linux, it hanged.
Rebooted, then it worked.
I had to enable the root account (Because Mandrake is too easy on the n00bs). No sweat, I ran Mandrake 9 before, so I knew how to do it in Mandrake 10.
Well, I figure, "Okay! Time to get on the Webternet!" I install the Atmel WLAN chipset driver for my Belkin F5D6050 USB WLAN adapter.
I press <esc> while it's booting so Linux will tell me what is happening (Mandrake shields you from the kernel module loading). Ohhhh! Pretty! Alpha blending!
I says something like "Setting up eth0, blah blah blah." Well, that's fine, eth0 is my wired connection, and I'm on wireless.
It says the same thing for "WLAN." Well, it's taking a while, and then I realize that it can't seem to get my IP from my router's DHCP server.
Oh shit. Well, no Webternet now. So I look around for the WLAN config program. I can't find it.
I say, "Okay, I'll just reboot." Yep. You guessed it. LILO froze again. And again, and again.
Six reboots later, I say, "Fuck Mandrake! I'm putting on Gentoo!"
What a piece of shit. This is by far the worst OS I have ever used. Hell, even fucking WinCrash 98 set itself up better.
So in short, fuck MandrakeSoft for making yet another shitty product!
I will never use Mandrake again.
After installing, LILO opened up. Sweet! I'm good to go!
Well, shit. My luck ran out. When I tried to boot Linux, it hanged.
Rebooted, then it worked.
I had to enable the root account (Because Mandrake is too easy on the n00bs). No sweat, I ran Mandrake 9 before, so I knew how to do it in Mandrake 10.
Well, I figure, "Okay! Time to get on the Webternet!" I install the Atmel WLAN chipset driver for my Belkin F5D6050 USB WLAN adapter.
I press <esc> while it's booting so Linux will tell me what is happening (Mandrake shields you from the kernel module loading). Ohhhh! Pretty! Alpha blending!
I says something like "Setting up eth0, blah blah blah." Well, that's fine, eth0 is my wired connection, and I'm on wireless.
It says the same thing for "WLAN." Well, it's taking a while, and then I realize that it can't seem to get my IP from my router's DHCP server.
Oh shit. Well, no Webternet now. So I look around for the WLAN config program. I can't find it.
I say, "Okay, I'll just reboot." Yep. You guessed it. LILO froze again. And again, and again.
Six reboots later, I say, "Fuck Mandrake! I'm putting on Gentoo!"
What a piece of shit. This is by far the worst OS I have ever used. Hell, even fucking WinCrash 98 set itself up better.
So in short, fuck MandrakeSoft for making yet another shitty product!