Mandrakelinux 10.1 on AMD64

Posted Jan 7, 2005 17:09 UTC (Fri) by cdmiller (guest, #2813)
Parent article: Mandrakelinux 10.1 on AMD64

Don't know about Mandrake 10.1 on X86-64, but in general we find Mandrake 10.1 a nice replacement for Redhat on a number of our servers. I even switched from debian to Mandrake 10.1 on my main work desktop for easier support of the radeon with dual display. I do miss some network utilities not being packaged, so I keep a debian station around. The Mandrake workstation has been solid, not suffering from some of the annoying bugs found in debian releases of the latest software only available in unstable. I don't use gnome or kde so I can't comment on them.

From my limited experience the best thing one can do is run "man urpmi" and read the urpmi documentation. After picking a mirror just use the urpmi command line tools. If you run a back office environment, set up your own local mirror, ours updates itself nightly. It's far easier than setting up a debian mirror as different versions and architectures are in their own directory trees.

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Mandrakelinux 10.1 on AMD64

Posted Jan 17, 2005 17:55 UTC (Mon) by namronatsoc (guest, #16250) [Link]

I have the same TYAN motherboard and Opteron processors but I can't get the Silver Club CD ISOs to install. It gets to the language selection screen, maybe, and sits there. It locks up and goes no further. 10.0 would install but was very sluggish. My WD Raptor HDD seemed to be a problem. So now I have the latest BIOS. Suse 9.1 Pro for 64 bit runs beautifully, but I can't get MDK 10.1 to install. I did get 10.0-64 to work but it was sluggish with the older BIOS.

I've been a user of MDK since 7.0 but this 64 bit distribution is frustrating me.