CaptCanuk's Journal: Mandrake 9

Back to Mandrake 9 on my box. Sad really. It's been a headache from Red Hat 8 to Suse 8.1 to Mandrake 9. My small 8 gig harddrive with Rh8 bit the dust prompting a move to the 80 gig harddrive. Lacking the space to do a proper install, i installed Suse twice (Both times without a Bootdisk) to a partition lying 65 gigs in. Guess what? Lilo can't find anything that far out (nor GRUB). So I downloaded Drake 9 and installed it (having downloaded two FULL SUSE 8.1 == 5 gig the day before). Finally decided that booting off a floppy wasn't a proper way to run my box so I reinstalled to a new paritition. 30gig Ext3, 30gig fat32, 15gig Ext3. Ironically, the second install of drake on the new partition is working well. No network issues that the original setup creates and the automounter seems to be working better (it was not mounting or creating /dev/hdb/ properly). I'm trying to update right now using live update in the control center. Unfortunately, 9.1 just hit the net... and Slashdot advertising doesn't help much. All the update sites are timing out and so I can't seem to update... timeout.

At least Drake 9 has Rage128 TVOUT support built in. If i can just figure out what kernel options it is, then modify the kernel config to allow for v4l then I can use it to watch tv and capture and out to TV. The dream...