Cent OS

This is a live only distro, if I had known that I would not have downloaded it.
CentOS for some reason is sluggish, very sluggish. Can't blame the medium for it since there are no errors shown. Every click is accompanied by long wait periods as the CD drive clanks its way.
Centos though was the knight in shining armour since it allowed me to recover a Mandriva installation that would not boot after Knoppix screwed up. The Knoppix trouble is mentioned in another post.
With Centos loaded, I could alter the parition data to allow Mandriva to continue to boot. I think the problem was that Knoppix renumbered the partition /dev/hda3 which was the swap partition for the Mandriva installation. And without the swap the booting would not proceed. It could also be due to the fact that every partition got renumbered causing a mix up between the file types and partition numbers in Mandriva.
In any case, Centos allowed me to boot into Mandriva.
While there are no installation options, during boot time one of the options is Network installation, and on selecting this, the routine asks for the Centos CD. I am guessing having two CDs would have helped.