In order to replace mdv2011 as my working system, I wanted to find a better workaround than that I posted earlier which I used to get a working copy of Mageia2 in my cooker/cauldron partition. That involved first installing Mageia1, updating, then upgrading to Mageia2 via urpmi, then applying changes/fixes before rebooting. That left an untold number of orphans cluttering the system.
This time I downloaded and saved to another OS ~/Download/rpm_Mageia2 the nonfree firmware, nvidia-kernel and dkms-nvidia
from http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mageia/distrib/2/x86_64/media/nonfree/
When running the Mageia2 DVD x86-64 installer (to sda9), I mounted that partition during the "choose partition" as /var/sdb7_home. After I then in safe mode reboot cd'd to that folder and installed the rpms.
I found that I had to run ifup eth1 in order to enable my internet connection before I could use the suggested urpmi commands.
e.g.
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urpmi.addmedia ftp ftp://ftp.mandrivauser.de/mirrors/Mageia/distrib/2/x86_64/media/nonfree/release
Then I ran XFdrake (which crashed on completion) but with a retry after reboot worked.
It seems I must retain the boot amendment acpi=ht (due to buggy BIOS - longstanding problem), but now it seems to have no negative side-effects.
This is no way to fly an aircraft.
Cheers
