Two issues that I recently encountered with 8.2b1 on my Wallstreet Powerbook:
o Does Linux have any way of knowing the hostname that was set in MacOS X?? When starting Linux, my Powerbook suddenly had the hostname "CWalthers PowerBook G3" that I had given it in MacOS X instead of the normal "localhost", and I'm pretty sure that I had never mentioned "CWalthers PowerBook G3" to Linux (because I suspected that Linux would not support hostnames with spaces in them, while I expect MacOS (X) not to allow me to do things that don't work). This caused another problem: When I tried to start KDE, it failed complaining about not being able to open some file ".DCOPserver..." (can't remember the exact name, but it had the new hostname in it). This problem vanished when I set the hostname back to "localhost". o I haven't been able to get Mac-On-Linux to recognize my CD drive. I added "blkdev: /dev/hdc -cd -boot" to /etc/molrc, and all I get when starting MOL is ----> (disk_open) Opening /dev/hdc1: No such device ----> (disk_open) Opening /dev/hdc2: No such device ----> (disk_open) Opening /dev/hdc3: No such device ...and so on until... ----> (disk_open) Opening /dev/hdc15: No such device I tried switching off supermount, but that didn't change anything. The CD drive is definitely /dev/hdc, as I could even mount the MacOS installation CD from there to copy out the MacOS ROM file. MOL works fine when booted from my MacOS 9.2.2 HD, apart from the fact that it starts in 8-bit video and the color translation to my 32-bit X window is somewhat broken - what should appear white appears black, what should appear black appears black too, and the other colors are wrong as well. But that's probably not a Mandrake problem. -Christian
