Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Mandriva spring 2010 install problems

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@yahoo.com> 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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