[Gllug] Mandrake Disc

[Stephen Harker]

> I downloaded the Mandrake disc yesterday and burnt it onto a CD. When I
> took it home to give it a go it would boot but came up with the message
> "This is not a mandrake CD please replace CD and try again" or words to
> that effect
Did you check the md5 sum for the iso image before you burnt it?

> It also gave me the option to try and install from hard disk
> as well
You can copy all the RPMS to a partition on the hard drive and boot from the 
CD or a floppy.

> As much as I am tempted to ask I am not going to ask why most
> people seem to be using red hat or at least that is the impression I got
> after yesterday.
I think everyone was excited about the new release, hence the chatter. It 
doesn't necessarily reflect usage. 

> It would be interesting to know though what everyone is
> running and what versions purely for academic purposes. In fact I will
> volunteer to collate a list if people would like to email me off list and I
> will post the results with names unless there are objections. I know its a
> pointless operation but so are a lot of things and I would hate to do
> everything in my life from necessity only.
To start off the list
I use Mandrake 8.1 on my desktop, Mandrake 8.0 on our 
file/print/email/proxy/quake/mp3 server (haven't got around to upgrading - if 
it aint broke don't fix it) an OpenBSD firewall a small OpenBSD 
file/proxy/mail server at one of our shops (it was an experiment that worked 
too well) and an old SCO OpenServer machine running a proprietary database.

Steve
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Stephen Harker
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