Fedora 9 (Sulfur) or Mandriva One 2009

i am very curious about everything I am seeing about mandriva 2009 in this forum. Have anyone tried installing Fedora 9 on the AAO-110? If so, how did it go?

Can anyone please give me the link on how to install and tweak the Mandriva One 2009 on the AAO-110? I would prefer the most complete post/thread. thanks a lot.

 

Fedora 9 (and what will be 10) work quite well (for me, YMMV). They do need tweaking for SD card recognition as the required kernel modules are not loaded by default. Haven't tried a KDE desktop, but Network Manager worked fine for me with GNOME and XFCE. Couldn't get lxnm working with the LXDE desktop; would recommend leaving the GNOME network manager stuff around unless you want to configure your network manually

 

It should be noted that there are different versions of Mandriva and as far as I know there is one that is called Mandriva One 2009 and it is not the same as Mandriva 2009 Gnome. The information here is for Mandriva 2009 Gnome. I have not installed the other versions and so have no personal knowledge of them. The reports I have read tell me they are not as easy or quite as stable, as Mandriva 2009 Gnome, but I may not have read the right reports.

The simplest installation is to install from an external CD drive. Just boot from the CD drive. Once Mandriva loads click on the install icon to install Mandriva and use the defaults unless you need something different like language or keyboard. For partitions the default is Native Linux which is ext2, which is the best for SSD's as far as I know.

For tweaking all you need to do after installing Mandriva 2009 Gnome is to follow the instructions below....
Add the following lines to my /etc/modprobe.conf

Add the following lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

The # makes the line following it to be just a comment.

And that is all. You can't get much simpler than that.

 

Can´t seem to find any info about Mandriva 2009 gnome. Could you tell me where you got it?

 

Get Mandriva 2009 Gnome from....
http://www.mandriva.com/en/download/
Select Gnome then select the country you want to download from.

 

That is the download page for Mandriva One 2009, which comes with either GNOME or KDE desktop. There is no Mandriva 2009 GNOME.

 

I was under the impression that there was a difference but it seems there is not and that I am running Mandriva One 2009 Gnome.