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Plenty of things I put here are focused on how I set up my hardware; so that next time (if any), easy urpmi setup
IR Remote I will not have to figure out what I did to get things going the last time. And if you wonder why urpmi HowTo
I'm thinking of installing again: simple, if Mandriva and Linux are to get better, what else to do Mandriva Linux 2006 Release
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How I like then to test the betas and release candidates and report bugs? Mandriva Linux 2006 Errata
KDE to By the way, some of these instructions are very much related to the hardware that I'm installing DKMS: dealing with
behave this on, so I have added the spec of my systems (both hardware configuration and software proprietary drivers
config files). For your reference: previous
configuration pages
MX700 This time I installed on my wifes desktop machine (neuchatel), my own desktop (zurich) and Mandriva Linux 2005 LE
buttons my laptop (samos). I did an ftp installation on both desktop machines with the dvd iso image on Mandrakelinux 10.1
my server (paris) mounted in loop mode. The laptop got installed from the iso image that I first Mandrakelinux 10.0
Java in copied onto the internal harddrive. It would be nasty if I realise I forgot to install something Mandrakelinux 9.2
Mandrakelinux 9.1
webbrowsers when I'm away and have to make do with a slow internet connection. All three installs were
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initiated with a cdrom (cdrw actually) that I burnt the boot.iso onto. You can find this image in
Flash in the dvd, the path is: "install/images/boot.iso". This image supports ftp, http, nfs and local Latest site additions:
webbrowsers harddrive installation. Added October 13th 2005:
The configuration page of
Hibernate In all cases, the system knows about the existance and whereabouts of the packages on the dvd Mandriva Linux 2006.
and suspend image, which resides either on the built-in harddrive or on the server. So only other repositories Added October 12th 2005:
to RAM will have to be added. The Installation walkthrough
of Mandriva Linux 2006.
Conclusion I have used the clubmember Powerpack dvd which contains more than the public download
Added June 23rd 2005:
edition will, such as NVidia and ATI graphics drivers, Sun Java, Flash and then some. All of The configuration page of
Feedback these can be obtained in other ways, but the Powerpack dvd is naturally much more Mandriva 2005 Limited
comfortable. Edition.
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