I wonder if it will be more stable on the XBox than my system. It doesn't like my Samsung 8x8x32 writer and if a pop any CD into it and try accessing it, the OS will totally crash 20 seconds later! This happens in the GUI and in the console mode (ALT-CTRL-F1). :( This doesn't happen with any Redhat, Windows or Lycoris version.
9.10.2002 02:20 #1
To say the truth, I never liked Mandrake too much. I tried lots of Linux distributions until I discovered Debian, the most stable and safest bet if you want to run Linux in your PC by far. On the other hand, it may require a long time to get up-to-date versions of the packages, and is not as "user-friendly" as Mandrake... Anyway, Sean, if your hardware was the same under both Red Hat and Mandrake, then the problem relies on your RPMs and/or kernel versions. You can try upgrading them and see what happens. Linux rules.
9.10.2002 03:15 #2
I reported the problem to Mandrake. When ever I install Linux, I always start with a clean partition. Mandrake 8.1 never gave problems with accessing CDs in the Samsung. Mandrake 9 beta and RC2 only hung if I stuck a Video CD or UDF CD-RW (packet written) in the drive, but once I installed the final version, it crashes no matter what CD I stick in!
9.10.2002 03:29 #3
Well, Mandrake has evolved, then. At least it won't discriminate any CD, whatever its color, sex, religion or format. A similar problem happened to a friend of mine. He had no patience. Just reformatted and migrated to Debian. Maybe you should upgrade and recompile your kernel before. Is it a SCSI drive we're talking about? If not, try turning on and off SCSI emulation.
9.10.2002 03:42 #4
just out of curiosity, can you still play your Xbox games after installing linux? how about if you wanted to go back to the original Xbox O/S ?? would you have to make a ghost image or something prior to altering it? I can't imagine calling Micro$oft for tech support on an Xbox in order to restore it to working condition.. just seems like a helluva lot to go through to have a working linux system considering that you don't need to spend much to buy an old used P2 machine, which would run Linux just fine! and in which case, I would never install any flavor of linux besides Red Hat, I have tried Mandrake, Slackware, & Red Hat, and for the past few years that I have actually played with them, Red Hat blows the competition away every time.
Anyhow, that's my 2 cents...
10.10.2002 09:36 #5
If I had an Xbox, I'd wait for Redhat to be ported to it. I'm giving up on Mandrake and going to download the 5 CDs of Redhat 8.0 this weekend. I got a 56k modem and 2Mbps Europeonline.net filefetch by satellite DVB card. When downloading the Mandrake ISOs, it took 1 hour for two 700MB ISOs (after waiting in the queue), both downloading at 2Mbps each (500k/sec total).
11.10.2002 01:22 #6
this site is dumb I wanted to download linux 9.0 because it said I could but it dosent tell you how to is is not a good site there is no help
20.8.2003 11:07 #7
If you want Red Hat, best site to get the latest updates and download the verisons is ftp://ftp.nrc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/
Here and back up some levels you can find linux for anything.
20.8.2003 13:31 #8