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A tale of a total linux noob trying mandriva one 2010 :D

I downed mandrake one 2010 slapped it on a usb pen it didnt work. So I read up about it and said use the seed tool. Doesnt work in windows 7 no matter what.

So I thought hey it looks awesome I will burn the iso and give it a proper go this time see if linux can convert me for my daily use and use windows for games.

So I burn the iso boot it up. Going through the options to install etc and I get to the part about where to install it. I allready made a 20GB free space on a diff drive from windows. Now forgive me for being a total noob to linux but I went along with the whole mandriva 2010 one is so easy it will auto pick the free space. So I click that drive and it doesnt find it so I have to click custom so I click this and tried to select the free space but I clicked the wrong part.

it wouldnt let me go back no button for it and wouldnt let me change it so I just lost my windows partition etc totally raged but decided to just push on with wipe the whole drive and install it :p

Next hurdle it comes up some sort of error message about configuring my displays manually because of a failure in X something or other. Its just a bog standard gtx260 in sli. No idea what I was doing but managed to get it to find a 260 by selecting stuff and picking resolutions etc somehow this works and im onto finishing the install and then the desktop.

After playing about with it and trying all the fancy effects of the kde and swirly cube etc im loving it so far and happy to try using it for a few weeks. Can anyone suggest what on earth went wrong with the gfx during install and why on earth is there not a back button on that drive selector screen.

As long as someone gets a chuckle from my noobness :D
 
You just hit the power button to go back, so long as it hasn't formatted or made partitions yet.

As for the display, don't know, but make sure you're using the nVidia driver.
 
hehe I did have 2 drives but I pressed something by accident and it made a change and couldnt figure out how to undo it.

Still its all good. Im pretty sure its using the nvidia driver I seen the logo flash up and it does all the 3d effects snappy enough :)
 
DAvE18 said:
hehe I did have 2 drives but I pressed something by accident and it made a change and couldnt figure out how to undo it.

Still its all good. Im pretty sure its using the nvidia driver I seen the logo flash up and it does all the 3d effects snappy enough :)
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yeh its on then.

You going to try any other distro's?
 
i havn't used mandriva one, so i cant really comment about the installer.

however, for the future, a few things that might be useful to you.

instead of installing it straight away to try it out, u could have used a live cd, just boot from the cd and it will take you straight to the desktop without needing to access the drive at all.

also, u could use a VM, like VirtualBox, and install and run the linux inside your windows install to try it out. A useful way of trying lots of distros without having to worry about changes to your drive.

also when you said u made 20gb free space, how exactly did you do that ?
im assuming you split the partition to have a seperate 20gb one, but was it then set to NTFS, Fat32, etc?
if so, then its not really "free space" so an installer wont see it as such.

free space is space thats left unpartitioned
 
Hi

I tried to use it as a live cd it wouldnt work from usb as mandriva needed the seed tool to make it work but doesnt work on windows 7. So tried the cd and just thought meh will go for it. Have so far got ubuntu working form usb pen though :)

Also the free space I shrunk a drive and then left it as 20gb unpartitioned space.

Might try a few others but liking this so far seems very well done hardly like linux at all.
 
Oxy said:
I always have two different HDD, one for windows and one for linux.
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I'm geek enough to know how to correctly partition and manage the bootloader of a hard disk
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