Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 03, 2002 04:17 AM
Yesterday I have tried the distro in subject. The installation was superb, I have created the following partitions: hda5 /boot 7MB hda6 swap hda7 / 4,7 GB hda8 203MB Windows hda8 was already there. So teh install was really the best I have seen. It recognised my network card, that should have not been recognised becasue of an IRQ routing problem of my laptop. X was also well defined, AIT radeon mobility was recognised. However, I tried to choose resolution 1400*1050, but it allways switched back to 1280*1024. Eventually I managed, so I rebooted. 1.) It did not reboot at all, complained about missing root partition. I booted my SuSE 7.3, and saw, that both lilo.conf and fstab thinks, that my root partition is hda8, (that was in fact a vfat partition), swap was as hda7 set up, however, that should have been hda6. I changed these, and finally I was able to boot in. 2.) Next surprise: the XF86Config file was empty!!! I had to ceexecute draxconf to set it up properly. 3.) I forgot to mention, that the install program toched my windows xp partition, and REMOVED THE BOOTABLE FLAG!!!
Because of the buggy X driver (not Mandrake's fault), X was completly unstable, it locked up my box. Consol worked OK. However, my network card did not work anymore.
I have got to say, this distro is a nice try. The install is the clearest one I have ever seen, however, these bugs should be fixed. KDE seemed to be fast, and the graphics looked nice. But Mandrake is not my world, I cannot stand supermount and the slow boot up.
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strange bugs - nice try
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 03, 2002 04:17 AMhda5 /boot 7MB
hda6 swap
hda7 / 4,7 GB
hda8 203MB Windows
hda8 was already there. So teh install was really the best I have seen. It recognised my network card, that should have not been recognised becasue of an IRQ routing problem of my laptop. X was also well defined, AIT radeon mobility was recognised. However, I tried to choose resolution 1400*1050, but it allways switched back to 1280*1024. Eventually I managed, so I rebooted.
1.) It did not reboot at all, complained about missing root partition. I booted my SuSE 7.3, and saw, that both lilo.conf and fstab thinks, that my root partition is hda8, (that was in fact a vfat partition), swap was as hda7 set up, however, that should have been hda6. I changed these, and finally I was able to boot in.
2.) Next surprise: the XF86Config file was empty!!! I had to ceexecute draxconf to set it up properly.
3.) I forgot to mention, that the install program toched my windows xp partition, and REMOVED THE BOOTABLE FLAG!!!
Because of the buggy X driver (not Mandrake's fault), X was completly unstable, it locked up my box. Consol worked OK. However, my network card did not work anymore.
I have got to say, this distro is a nice try. The install is the clearest one I have ever seen, however, these bugs should be fixed.
KDE seemed to be fast, and the graphics looked nice. But Mandrake is not my world, I cannot stand supermount and the slow boot up.
I may stay with SuSE 7.3...
Cheers
Gaboro
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