I'd first like to say wow... Drakx looks awesome! Works very nice too! I
have a few observations, however.
I did a hd install using gi_hd.img on a PII-350 with 64MB RAM. Drakx
worked like a champ, everything worked perfect for the install except it
skipped my SCSI selection (maybe because I didn't tell it SCSI when I was
in the partitioning screen?). Went back and selected it and it worked
good.
I chose the Recommended installation method because I'm writing a review
on Mandrake 7.0 and thought it would be good for new-comers from Windows
(which, I'm assuming, is the target for the Recommended install anyways).
I think you need to put a network setup in Drakx... reason being, when I
went to setup the network later (I use DHCP on a cable modem), I couldn't
use it because neither dhcpcd nor pump were installed. I think these
either need to be installed by default in the Recommended install or we
need to have a network setup so that they can be selected for install
based on what the user needs.
I didn't like the auto-LILO config. Is there a way we can have it test if
a previous version of LILO is installed? My system is multi-boot between
Win98, Mandrake 6.1, and the new 7.0, but it wiped out my original LILO
config. Not a huge deal, but annoying anyways. I did like how it
auto-added Win98 to the boot menu, however.
Not sure if this is somewhat related to me going back to select a SCSI
card after the partitioning, but it didn't make a mount point for my VFAT
SCSI drive. It made mount points for both the CD-ROM and CDRW, and the
external SCSI ZIP drive, however, which was cool. No mount points for
other ext2 partitions tho? Shouldn't they be in there, maybe done the
same way as the DOS_hda1, etc. mount points? Something like ext2_hdc1 and
so on?
What happened to WindowMaker on the picklist in XDM or KDM or whatever *DM
loads an X session? WindowMaker is gone, and so is Xfce? I'm sure
WindowMaker was installed... Also, can we have a seperate selection for
Enlightenment? I'd like to be able to load it without having to load
GNOME if possible (and I'm sure others would too) since E is becoming more
and more efficient as a stand-alone WM without needing GNOME underneath
it.
RPMdrake is cool, but I was confused with the target systems. I tried to
add another cdrom for RPMs, and it just used cdrom_1 and didn't specify a
path. I've got 2 CDROMs here, so it could be either one, or does it do it
automatically? Why isn't there a help button in RPMdrake to give help on
things like that?
I also think draksec needs to have some explanation of the security
levels. Low/Medium/High don't explain very much. What's the difference
between them? I think there should be either a popup window explaining
the differences or some kind of help button to do so. I went thru and
selected all three at different times and it never told me what was
different on the system for any of them.
I like the new icons in KDE, but did someone forget to update the menus
for GNOME? Stuff like RPMdrake and DrakConf aren't in there at all, and
neither are some of the icons that are available on the KDE desktop. I
think GNOME should have those as well.
All in all, I really like it! The install was nice and fast, and the
majority of stuff seems to work pretty good other than those issues
mentioned above. Didn't go into it too deep, but those are just surface
observations. Keep up the good work guys!
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