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Pandamonium

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I installed Mandrake 9.2 from the CDs I burned a few months ago and the installation went without a hitch. However, it failed to properly load my sound drivers and I couldn't figure out how to configure Mandrake's' DHCP for the life of me, so I downloaded the 10.0 ISOs and burned those.

During installation, I got *a lot* of errors about various packages not being able to be installed (I went through it checking OK and leaving all the default settings.) I could have corrupted the ISOs since the downloads were resumed many times-my router craps out when I stress it with heavy traffic. Since the installation went to completion, I figured I missed out on a bunch of software packages.

I boot into Mandrake fine, the only issue is that it takes about 3-4 mins to boot up from a cold boot. Aside from that, I still couldn't figure out how to get DHCP working. All I do to make my windows machines connect is set in tcp/ip properties:

check obtain an ip address automatically (I assume enable DHCP will do the same in Mandrake)
check use the following DNS servers, and enter 2 DNS servers from my ISP

In Mandrake, I've added the DNS servers under the "Internet Access" configuration and rebooted. Upon checking the same configuration, all my changes are lost. I *think* this might be the only issue I need to resolve, but it should still not be this hard!

Any ideas?
 
Did you run an md5sum check on the isos you downloaded? It could be the isos are corrupted and you need to download new ones.

Also, are you installing on an nforce2 board? Apparently you have to disable ACPI when you're installing or you'll get errors very similar to what you're describing.

I've got a possible solution in my first post here, but I don't know if it will fix it. If I were you, I'd unplug your windows drives and install linux on a separate physical hard drive.

Edit: I have no idea what you should do about your DHCP issues, I know almost jack squat about linux.
 
I'm actually installing on a Dell Lattitude LS - it's one of their ultraportables from back in the day. (500mhz P3)

I'll try running the checksums in just a minute, but I don't think ACPI is affecting my install. The installation just says there was an error with package ______ and I can ignore it or quit. None of the packages I noticed were serious, but there were at least 30+ that crapped out.
 
I'm not sure if Mandrake uses the standard dhcp tools, but you can try dhclient eth0. If that doesn't work, try something like: pump eth0.
 
Should I assume these are for the command line? (or was the term hash prompt? bash prompt? Heh, I hate being a newbie.)
 
to check the integrity of the ISO's you download you generally use the md5sum program. After downloading the file you do "md5sum isoimage.iso" and that will generate a special number for you. If that number matches the numbers from inside the md5sums text file you can be decently sure that it's a correct download. Md5sums file is generally in the same location as the ISO images. Also there is a md5sum.exe file for windows.

Eth0 generally represents you ethernet connection. eth0 eth1 eth2 if you have more then one ethernet card.

ifconfig eth0
will show you the satus of your ethernet card. If it returns a error then you don't have your drivers setup or whatnot for that card.

usually the command to use dhcp manually would be "dhcpcd eth0" or "dhclient eth0". Pump isn't something I've seen for a long time, but it could be one of them. There should be some gui configuration tool to configure the network, also check out Mandrake's online documentation at their website.
 
Originally posted by: drag
to check the integrity of the ISO's you download you generally use the md5sum program. After downloading the file you do "md5sum isoimage.iso" and that will generate a special number for you. If that number matches the numbers from inside the md5sums text file you can be decently sure that it's a correct download. Md5sums file is generally in the same location as the ISO images. Also there is a md5sum.exe file for windows.

Eth0 generally represents you ethernet connection. eth0 eth1 eth2 if you have more then one ethernet card.

ifconfig eth0
will show you the satus of your ethernet card. If it returns a error then you don't have your drivers setup or whatnot for that card.

usually the command to use dhcp manually would be "dhcpcd eth0" or "dhclient eth0". Pump isn't something I've seen for a long time, but it could be one of them. There should be some gui configuration tool to configure the network, also check out Mandrake's online documentation at their website.
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dhcpcd. That's what I was trying to remember. 😛
 
As people have described before you should check the inegrity of your ISO images. Also, why don't you post the output of the command "lspci", also can you ping anything in your network? what is the output of the command "lsmod"? With this commands you should be able to tell what type of NIC card and chipset it has.

Before I forget also try the commands that drag specified.
 
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