Mandrake 1; Fedora 0

My Dell Inspiron 2200 was cast aside when I got a new laptop.
Now it is my Linux wannabe, in fact I'm posting using Mandrake 10.1 on it right now so I guess it is bonafide.

First I went with fedora core, the free verison of Red Hat Linux but she no make my net, sound and other hardware work. I even got ndiswrapper going, but no; Fedora was a waste of 4 hours downloading and 4 CD-r's

Then I got Mandrake from www.linuxiso.org/ and after a few dead end mirror links got the DVD install iso which was an overnight download again at 2Gb.
An ISO is a disk image file which can reconstitute a disk like Campbells soup with the water (in this case your blank DVD-R) using Magis ISO burner.

And now my Linux science project is alive and DEll Inspiron 2200, sounds, battery meter, net card, monitor; just my wi-fi needs a driver now. I hear this is a common problem, getting notebook wi-fi to work in any Linux flavour.