A tale of a total linux noob trying mandriva one 2010 
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
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
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
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
