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Mandrake 8.1
Posted:
Tue May 07, 2002 9:16 am
by The Others
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?
Why buy it?
Posted:
Tue May 07, 2002 10:12 am
by d00p
another place
Posted:
Tue May 07, 2002 4:21 pm
by chrislebeck
www.cheapbytes.com
online order/ fast shipping/and cheap!
ordered mine on sunday and it shipped on monday!
Posted:
Wed May 08, 2002 10:28 am
by The Others
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?:
CheapBytes started operations on January 2, 1996. Yes, we have been in business for over 3 years now.
To say 5 would've impressed me more.
So, do i need both CD's? I need to save my money for a new wireless card.
Posted:
Mon May 13, 2002 3:23 pm
by lullabud
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... =)
Mandrake 8.2
Posted:
Mon May 13, 2002 3:41 pm
by chrislebeck
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.
Posted:
Mon May 13, 2002 3:57 pm
by lullabud
yes yes, samba rocks the casbah.
Re: Mandrake 8.2
Posted:
Tue May 14, 2002 11:03 am
by Pecos
Originally posted by chrislebeck
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.
Spiders are arachnids.
whatever
Posted:
Tue May 14, 2002 1:40 pm
by chrislebeck
spiders...bugs...things u squish...all the same
What happened?
Posted:
Tue May 14, 2002 6:04 pm
by g0tr00t
The site seems to have disappeared. I grabbed the Mandrake ISO's last night and went to check for he checksums and its gone.
I found the checksums on Google groups.
Posted:
Tue May 14, 2002 7:54 pm
by TIntruder
they are still there but because of the recent release of RedHat 7.3 the site is really slow.
I'm currently on my 20th hour of downloading CD#2!!!
Try again!
I've done it!
Posted:
Wed May 15, 2002 12:59 am
by The Others
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.
The Others
Posted:
Wed May 15, 2002 4:21 am
by g0tr00t
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.
Posted:
Wed May 15, 2002 5:28 am
by The Others
Hi,
Thanks, that'd be great. I'm no expert either but I'm sure if we both try it it'll all work fine.
I'll let you know when I get any success.
Posted:
Fri May 31, 2002 12:45 pm
by Maliciousturnip
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.