Pixel,
Since I reported that for my Matrox Millenium G200 AGP video card nothing
appears after the purple line when booting from hd.image, a new hd.image
dated 2000 01 06 has appeared.
This is to report that this new hd.img suffers from exactly the same problem.
In a beta situation, the ground rules requite that a new version for
beta test cannot be issued until all known problems have been verified as
corrected by the alpha test. I made this problem known to you some time
ago, so of course it was made known to the developer, so becoming a
monitored candidate for alpha test.
Further, I can now report that network.img could never have been tested on
simple networks without a name server. It does not collect enough
information for the job to be possible, and appears to be totally unaware of
the new restrictions introduced with Mandrake 6.0 through the adoption of
knfsd and a new exportfs (no traversal of remote mount points, no nfs
mount connection possible to any remote root directory).
Further still, I can report that the Customised, Developer install, sets
up networking after installing all the RPMs, instead of before. This
leads to a total failure to install:
portmap
nfs--utils (so no exportfs)
nfs-client-utils
and consequently networking is totally inoperative.
Again, how could such an obvious oversight ever have got past Mandrake's
alpha testing? This is a heinous waste of beta testers' time, and fairly
constitutes emotional abuse inflicted on beta testers who have trusted
MandrakeSoft to be doing a proper job. The function of a beta test is to
submit the product to externel users with a new perspective on
needs and requirements which viewpoint is not available at the
developer level.
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Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
