Thanks,
I was looking at PCLinuxOS, and others, but downloaded the latest Opensuse and it installed fine. I'll have to play around with it and see how I like it and also figure out the wireless. I think I might have had a bad burn or something because I was having trouble with other distros installing that I used the same burner program to burn the iso. Switched to a different burner program to burn Opensuse 11.3 and it worked. Thanks again for the info.
Dave
--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Roy <linuxcanuck@...> wrote:
>
> My experience with Mandriva is that it works well with some hardware, but is
> finicky with others. Each distribution is different and no one distribution
> is the best. You have to find which one works best with your hardware. I
> have learned this through countless installations on many computers over the
> past ten years. Mandrake (now Mandriva) was my first distribution.
>
> A Mandriva variant that you might want to look into is PCLinuxOS. Unless you
> need 64-bit (it comes in obly 32-bit) it is an easy to use distribution that
> works better than most.
>
> Roy
>
> On 15 July 2010 15:08, dawort2001 <dawort2001@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> > I am a newbie and have been trying to install different distros over the
> > last year or so to find one I like. Have Mandriva 2008 on another computer
> > and have had a lot of luck setting things up so I figured I would try to
> > install Mandriva Spring 2010 i586 dvd on my main dual boot system. I
> > downloaded the DVD iso, checked the MD5, and burned to a disc. Installation
> > got up to the bootloader and got this error.
> > mkinitrd failed Cmkinitrd -v-f /boot/ initrd -2.6.33.5
> > desktop -2mnb.img 2.6.33.5 -desktop-2mnb
> > Went and tried to do the install again but kept coming up with the same
> > error. Any suggestion?? Have been thinking about downloading the cd version
> > and trying that but haven't yet.I backed out of the install and loaded up
> > Ubuntu, with no problems, but don't really care for it too much, will have
> > to play around with it and see if my opinion changes
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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