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05-07-2002
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PeaceDriver
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Dos Palabras, Mandoras
Posts: 2,920
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Mandrake 8.1
Hi,
I want to install Mandrake 8.1 but don't really want to spend much money. Can I get away with buying just the first installation CD or do I need to buy both? Better still, does anyone want to post it to me? |
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05-08-2002
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PeaceDriver
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Dos Palabras, Mandoras
Posts: 2,920
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Why buy it?
I think that'll be easier (and quicker, even with posting) than a 600+ meg download. You're right, cheap bytes sure is cheap, but I think they should stop cost cutting with their calenders - who else read this?: Quote:
So, do i need both CD's? I need to save my money for a new wireless card. |
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05-13-2002
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Registered Member
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Silicon Valley
Posts: 261
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if you really want a distro of linux you should be able to find one locally. if nothing else just swing by your local college and see if anybody in the computer labs has a copy sitting around, or wouldn't mind if you downloaded it. you know how those college guys love linux... =)
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05-13-2002
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Registered Member
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: east, texas
Posts: 21
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Mandrake 8.2
love it! was trying to run 7.1.
samba is a whole lot easier to set up windows shares! i don't really have a college "close" by. nearest one is 30min away. so $10 was ok for me to spend. and i'm pounding on my dsl to "try" and get a "current" insect movie instead of getting linux. |
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05-14-2002
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Registered Member
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Northwest Burbs of Chi-Town
Posts: 5
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Re: Mandrake 8.2
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05-14-2002
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Welcome to my nightmare
Join Date: May 2002
Location: r00ting y0ur b0x.
Posts: 352
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What happened?
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I found the checksums on Google groups.
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05-15-2002
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PeaceDriver
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Dos Palabras, Mandoras
Posts: 2,920
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I've done it!
Hi,
I've got myself mandrake 8.2 now off the front of a linux mag. It wasn't the 8.1 that I wanted but I though £5.99 for a magazine and mandrake? I can't go wrong. Well, actually I could. The last distro I installed was redhat 7 that installed perfectly onto my desktop with some partitionless install system. Great i thought, my laptops got 5gb of free space, I'll do the same there. Unfortunatly I couldn't do a partitionless install (I don't know if its just a redhat thing or what) so I resized my FAT partition. With this at its smallest and the most basic linux packages I would still only be left with 1 - 2 megs of free linux space. So I didn't bother. So I had to decide whether to wipe windoze and go just for mandrake or leave it as it is. I left it.  |
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05-15-2002
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Welcome to my nightmare
Join Date: May 2002
Location: r00ting y0ur b0x.
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The Others
I just installed Mandrake 8.2 on my laptop. I have the Orinoco card, I know very little about Linux, but I will be trying to get my Orinoco card to work with Kismet.
I will keep you posted on my results.
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05-31-2002
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Registered Member
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Rancho Cucamonga
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I just installed Mandrake 8.2 on my Laptop aswell. Been having a time getting this linksys wpc11 to work with kismet. If im near an AP and i run iwconfig it will atleast give me signal strength and what not but kismet doesnt seem to pick anything up. Any idea's?
im thinking about trying RH 7.3. BTW im a 4 week old Linux new born heh. |
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