Subj : Re: Which Linux for a beginning desktop?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : SINNER
Date : Mon Feb 28 2005 12:10 am

* Mxsmanic wrote in comp.os.linux:
> chris writes:

>> Wrong.  One of the boxes here has six SCSI disks, and is happily running
>> Mandrake 10.0 - straight out of the box, installed in about 25 minutes,
>> running the software I want to run for my office, driving my (ostensibly
>> Windoze-only) printer straight out of the box.

> Mandrake would not even install on my machine.  The same machine runs
> Windows NT flawlessly.

Likely a simple parameter would solve the problem. I had a similar
problem on my Laptop, "linux acpi=off" at the lilo boot screen solved
the problem.

-- 
David
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
		-- Oscar Wilde

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