Re: Close to giving up on Linux...

Dan Espen wrote:
adamomitcheney@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Apologies in advance for the ranty nature of this.

Oh, oh, now you've done it!

Aye... Sorry, but I had to get the frustration off my chest.

-8< snip ->8-

Installation appears to be proceeding fine until it comes to reboot
time - straight back into windows, no grub (or lilo or whatever it uses
as a boot manager) and not even a CD I can use to point the machine to
the linux loader. I posted something about this earlier and maybe if I
get a response to that query I can go on.

Exactly the symptom you get it if you don't install the boot loader
in the MBR. That's a choice during the install. If you don't know
how to change the boot loader that is there to boot linux then
install the Linux boot loader in the MBR.

OK, a few more details (no-one has responded to my other post).

There was no choice to install boot loader to the MBR. The issue, I
suspect, is that I have windoze on a SATA disk and have been trying to
install linux across three PATA disks.

Mandriva:
Despite checking the md5 checksums on the ISO images, loads (and I mean
dozens, if not hundreds) of packages report errors. The graphics test

Did you use a RW-CD instead of a CDR?

?

just gives me a blank screen and mouse pointer and has to be
interrupted with a ctrl-alt-backspace. The ethernet appears not to

Need details about your hardware, graphics card, etc.

Asus A8N-SLI, 2x nVidia 6600GT.

Linux has an amazing opportunity, as we move to 64-bit, to challenge
M$'s hegemony. Based on my experience, it hasn't a hope in hell.

I predict
you are buying yourself a LOT of grief with the rant and
it won't help you get answers.

Even so, I feel better for it.

.

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