>From your mirror at aarnet I have so far attempted two 7.1 beta installs on two different machines, each of which already has a 100% running Mandrake 7.0-2 partition. Both are Custom, install, Development. The first delivered an unacceptable result, the second crashed during install. Details below: 1. Was done a couple of days ago. This is a gateway machine with two NICs. The other machine on the LAN could not be pinged after install completed. /etc/hosts is NOT set up by the install. Taking this into account, a ping to the actual IP address was tried and also failed. "An error occurred" (without bothering to say what error) during setup of X which could not be overcome. Video card is bog standard Matrox G200, monitor Hyundai 17B+. Conclusion: Unacceptable. 2. This was done just now from the aarnet mirror, which had been updated by some 100 or so replacement RPMs, etc. 20 minutes in, immediately after the installation of kdebase-1.1.2-53mdk.i586.rpm a small dialog popped up File: missing header file. This dialog is bad because it shows the names of neither the RPM nor the missing file. It was impossible to proceed. Conclusion: Mandrake had not tested install against the updated beta. Shockingly, no announcement to beta testers had been made that the beta was to be, and had been, updated. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
