I just installed Mdk 7.0, the 'cheapbytes' version of air. It
has most all files dated Jan. 10, 11, and 12th. Actually I did several
installs, just playing around with it. All went smoothly, no problems.
I was very impressed with the GUI install (not upgrade), particularly
the re-partitioning. The main reason I gave up a perfectly fine 6.0
install was to re-partition. Figured I might as well upgrade too.
I was also pleasantly surprised to find that several of my favorite
apps that I thought I'd need to re-install, were already installed! The
only hardware that wasn't completely setup and functioning was my AWE64
sound card, but that was no problem. A quick 'sndconfig' took care of it
in seconds. As I said, I did several installs, trying 'recommended' to full
'development', about 4 altogether.
In 2 installs (tries) tho, Windows would not recognize a 2 gig fat32
partition I was trying to leave on the end of the 8 gig HDD. NBD, I
was sort'a on the fence about having that partition, or just giving the
whole drive to Linux, which is what I ended up doing. In the first 3
installs (about 40 mins. ea.) I also kept ending up with a 7mb blank
space on the end of the drive. I read awhile back that setting the
HDD from 'lba' to 'normal' in bios would eliminate this. So on the final
install, that's what I did. No more blank space, DiskDrake allocated the
entire drive (WD Caviar). On booting tho, I got the infamous 'LI....'.
When I set the drive back to 'lba', that problem was fixed and 7.0
booted without error.
So thanks Mandrake, not everybody's havin problems with 7.0 ;-)
[Hardware is a p3-450 oc'd to 608, on a soyo 6ba+III. 13.6 7200rpm IBM
hda (W98) master, and the WD 8.4 5400rpm hdb (Mdk 7) as slave on ide0.
SB AWE64 sound, Phoebe (TI chipset) 33,6 modem, pci Voodoo3]
To comment on the recent 'oc'ing' discussion. Most oc'rs run some
of the 'stablest' hardware. My 450 will run W98 at 621, and some
oc'rs would call it stable. I run it at 608 because at that speed it
will run the '16 hour' prime95 (Linux) self test with no errors.
'Cpuburn' wont' get the internal diode to go over 43C, no matter how
long it runs. I suspect a lot of the problems some blame on their
OS, compiler, Mandrake, etc., are really hardware problems, and
often from brand new ready made systems like Dell, Gateway, .....
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.. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
