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Compile support for your USB device into the kernel, and everything should be just fine. you need to remember, the reason 'mandrake didnt see' the device is because it boots off of a "Work-for-all" kernel, its not personalized, its generalized. Don't complain about not having support until you've compiled it in. I'd also like to point out, GRUB is NOT the default boot loader, LILO is and probably allways will be, it will give you a 'flashy graphic' just make sure to install lilo instead of grub. Besides that i'd like to point out that 9.0 is a great distro, its not meant to work on a slower computer out of the box, or fresh off the cd, unless you're willing to recompile the kernel (which; and trust me on this; isnt hard at all)

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