Hello, Tried beta1 last night and there are a couple (or more) of observations I would like to share:
1. The partitioner in the installer does not accept manually typing the partition size 2. DON'T INSTALL MySQL from the installer! This screwed up the installer - when prompted for the second CD, it would keep ejecting it back after I press OK. Jumping to a terminal and using lsof revealed that a mysqld process is locking some RPMs on the 1st CD (which has been ejected, bizarre). Killing the process solved everything, apart from most of the services being turned off on the service menu. 3. My iBook2 was detected as a Powerbook 4. *Missing GNOME libraries*. Cannot even get to the GNOME desktop. libpanel-applet missing, libguile missing too. 5. Most items in Mandrake Control Center not functioning properly. draknet, for instance. rpmdrake does not display package info. 6. What's with DevFS support? I had to manually load macserial to get /dev/tts/[0,1] and /dev/ttyS[0,1], and still could not get my modem working with kPPP. (Does anyone know if the XFS file system can be used without devfs?) 7. Speaking of XFS, libattr is missing as well. Found that out trying to install samba. That's roughly it. Neat hardware support, but slightly below the usability levels of x86 betas generally. Was a bit disappointed to miss out on GNOME's new translucent panel :( Regards, Michel Salim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
