As I missed running linux on my desktop I finally decided this evening to take the plunge and load it onto my laptop.
Hardware used:
– Dell Latitude
– PIII 850
My experience with this installation was horrendous, but that was more the laptop’s fault than Mandrake’s.
I had been given copies of the Mandrake install CDs by a friend a few months back. If I loaded them on my desktop machine there were no issues, however the laptop cd-rom drive did not like them. After wasting what seemed to be an eternity trying to get the laptop to boot from the CD I finally decided to scrap that idea completely. I opted for a network install.
The network install menu was very user-friendly, although you do need to know your network settings ( ie. your IP address)
Partitioning is not for the fainthearted, as I learnt with previous experiments. If you get it wrong you will end up with an unusable pile of silicon, metal and plastic (though reformatting and reinstalling will make it all usable again)
