Hi, I've downloaded and installed 7.0 using the "Recommended" setting. I'll be giving the other two settings a test Friday and Saturday. I don't know if you want my background or not but here goes. I do testing for 3 different commercial pieces of software: beta testing for a desktop publishing program, a disaster recovery program, and I am on the development and alpha testing team for a 3D graphics and animation program. I have also installed every major distribution to test their new installers (Caldera, Red Hat, Suse, Turbolinux). I'll be writing a review on these. I have some small interface suggestions for the installer based on this past experience. 1. Even though you can step back to a previous step by clicking on the list on the left side of the screen, some steps have more than one dialog box that appears. These "substeps" should have a back button on them (also useful as a panic button for new users some times). 2. The currently selected partition in the partition manager should be VERY obvious for inexperienced users. Have a box appear around the selected partition. 3. The font size for the mount points is too small. I didn't notice the "/" in the root partition the first time. 4. You have a lot of unused area around the dialog boxes and popup windows. Decrease this space and increase the display area for the instructions. 5. The text explanations are ok for someone that has installed Linux at least once, but the partitioning info is a little sketchy for Linux newbies. This is important for the people that want to give your distribution a try by buying a "cheap CD" from Linux mall, or who download an iso image. Problem During the install, the printer did not print the test pages ( a Deskjet 600C). I finally hit cancel after running through the printer setup twice. After Mandrake was installed, the ASCII sample pages printed when the computer rebooted. The postscript pages never printed.
