Ok, I’m up and running in Mandrake, using kde as my desktop. So far so good…

The only hitch I hit when installing Mandrake was that it asked me for a CD that I didn’t have. I thought it must have been the third CD in the set, but I downloaded it twice and burned the image 3 times and it still wouldn’t accept it.
So, I finally said to just skip it, which it did without complaint. I think it might have been internationalization settings.

The kde desktop looks pretty and the file browser is modeled on Windows Explorer, which isn’t a bad thing. Since I’m writing this entry from the linux desktop, I am apparently connected fine.

It looks like it’s playing mp3’s, which I couldn’t get the RedHat distribution to do. Of course, I don’t hear any sound, but the file is generated a graphic sound wave in the xmms player, so that’s pretty much the same thing as hearing it, isn’t it? I refuse to be stopped by details!

The Mandrake Control center tells me that it didn’t install samba, required to see the Windows machines on my network. Hmm. I could have sworn that I checked that box during the installation process. Well, it’s installing samba now. And it’s found the folders on my XP laptop. Cool!

And now it’s lost them. Oh well, it was cool for a moment…Wait, they’re back!…But it can only see the directories…But it’s auto-configured the fstab file…. Alternating fits of coolness…

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