Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 02, 2003 04:13 PM
i have been using drake since 7.0. when installing, if you use a username from a previous install, it will import those settings. i have found that RH doesn't do that. you're best off moving all your stuff to<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/backup, or<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.tar.gz'ing it, then adding a new user. mandrake's menu structure is pretty straitforward. usually it will default to the desktop preferences (i.e konq/kmail->KDE, galeon/evo->gnome). but you should have gotten the mandrake first time on startup. this will allow you to set up your environment. for all the carping, mandrake is linux underneath.
kudos to drake. jsut installed it on an old (k62-300, 128mb) laptop. it found my linksys wap11 card, and everything fine, except soundcard which 8.0 picked up. however, adding it to<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/etc/modules was easy. (still not a "simple" task for newbies, but then again, this laptop is 5 years old!!). i also like the osx-like profiles for network prefs. way to go.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 02, 2003 04:13 PMkudos to drake. jsut installed it on an old (k62-300, 128mb) laptop. it found my linksys wap11 card, and everything fine, except soundcard which 8.0 picked up. however, adding it to<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/etc/modules was easy. (still not a "simple" task for newbies, but then again, this laptop is 5 years old!!). i also like the osx-like profiles for network prefs. way to go.
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