Did you use DiskDrake to re-size your fat32 partition? I did and lost
everything on my 10 gig drive in the process.
After recovering from my Ghost image, I re-installed 7.0 on a second drive.
But, all was not well.. I chose to do a beginner install. I thought I'd see
just how well it would go. Everything installed and came up just fine. But, I
tried to set up KPPP to dial to my ISP.. That was no problem either. Except
that once I was connected to my ISP, I could no longer open any applications in
KDE.. As soon as I disconnected from my ISP, I could once again open
applications.
So, I thought I'd be slick and open stuff up before starting KPPP. Well, that
worked, but I couldnt connect to anything.. Not even by entering the direct IP
address.
So, I blew that install away and re-installed in expert mode. This time I was
able to get things set up and going.
Then, I decided to upgrade another system I have from MDK 6.1 to 7.0 That too
turned into an exercise in futility. Once the upgrade was complete, my pppd
settings no longer worked, the supermount system didnt like the devices or the
IO chip on that system (Its a Compaq Deskpro so that part doesnt surprise me
very much) and most of the software I had set up on this system was gone. So,
I completely wiped the partitions on that system and reinstalled 6.1. It took
6.1 20 minutes to install, another 30 minutes to set up config files and
compile a few applications and it was back in business. The Compaq system is a
system I use for work and has to be up and online at all times, so I didnt feel
like tinkering around for the next day or two trying to get 7.0 to behave.
I do see great things in the new installer and the Drake utilities. But, they
need more work and more testing before I will consider using them in a
production environment. Especially DiskDrake and its partition re-sizing code.
I really like the feel of the installer. It does need a few improvements to make
it more intuitive for both new users and experienced users.
Like everyone else, this has not soured me on Mandrake.. I will be
downloading 7.1 when its made available..
Darin -
Senior Systems Engineer
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> tommiy....I'm sorry but I don't have any ready solutions for
> your present problems. What I do have are some suggestions as
> to how to prevent such problems in the future. Anyway here's
> what I do. I have one primary partition and one extended
> partition on my 9.1 gig scsi hard drive. The primary partition
> has windows on it and uses 1/3 of the space (just under 3 gigs)
> on the drive. The extended partition takes up the rest of the
> drive and contains 6 partitions. It has in order a 15 meg ext2,
> a 128 meg swap, a 2.6 gig ext2, a 15 meg ext2, a 128 meg swap,
> and a 2.6 gig ext2. The primary partition is sda1 and the
> extended partition contains sda5-10. This leaves room for 2
> linux installations of /boot, swap and /. When a new release
> comes out I install it clean on the set of 3 partitions I'm not
> currently using. Then I can slowly customize and install
> updates till I'm ready to stop using the old version and start
> using the new one on a daily basis. I've never upgraded, but
> instead always installed each new version fresh and migrated to
> using the new release slowly. There are other ways too, but
> this method is mine and I've never had any severe
> disappointments.
>
> Alan
>
>
> tommiy wrote:
> >
> > Well when 7.0 came out i got excited and bought the CD thinking...hey
> > 6.1 was cool...damn 7 must be better....what a dissappointment.....
> >
> > I selected an upgrade and now I find I have an absolute multitude of
> > problems to work through....seems lots of things are now broken....all
> > come with the distro...
> >
> > First my ppp scripts no longer function...cool huh and all I used to use
> > was ifup ppp0.
> >
> > This is now broken by a new app in the initscripts called ppp-watch. Now
> > if I try the old ifup ppp0 ppp-watch barfs and rejects it. Off to the
> > source code time to resolve that...in the mean time I probably broke
> > everything and went back to the init scripts from 6.1 to make it work
> > again.... oh by the way this also appears to make linuxconf ppp side of
> > life to fail as well...it gives the same errors in messages....kppp
> > still goes but I hate KDE! Would seem to identify where the testing went
> > thou.
> >
> > Also appears that the IDE patches weren't in the kernel cause my ALI
> > board chipset is no longer recognised and installed as simplex...DOH!
> > off to get another patch and patch the kernel....
> >
> > Next for some reason starting gnome is as slow as an absolute wet
> > week!!! On 6.1 it came up fast....on 7.0 it takes approximately 3
> > minutes for the desktop icons to appear.......
> >
> > Sigh appears that the reasons I went to Mandrake are fast dissappearing
> > ;((
> >
> > Anyone have some cluse to the slow enlightenment startup I would
> > appreciate.
> >
> > Regards
