Hi,
I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 beta by mounting the ISO image on
another machine in the local network (using the loopback option) and
booting my computer with the bootdisk for NFS installation. Then I have
chosen the other machine as server, mounting the directory with the
mounted CD image.
I have found the following bugs after the installation with the
graphical installer (mode 'expert'):
- The frame buffer kernel (*mdkfb) has no Reiser-FS support.
- My sound board (Soundblaster AWE ISA) was not installed automatically
by the graphical installer. An installation with
the program sounddrake worked without problems, so the installation
of the sound board should be easily possible by the
graphical installer.
- The most recent stable version of X-CD-Roast is 0.96ex2, the version
coming with Mandrake 7.1 is only 0.96e. That old
version has still a bug in the nonroot-mode and the cdparanoia
support. So it should be updated. Get it from
www.xcdroast.org.
- The monitor names in XFdrake are somewhat strange, I couldn't find
the EIZO F78.
- By default there are no symbols for often used programs in the panel
of KDE. In 7.0 this symbols still were available.
- There is no button or desktop symbol for getting a terminal window
(konsole). konsole is also not listed in the terminal
section of the KDE menu.
- I added some partitions on external NFS servers to the /etc/fstab.
They are not mounted automatically at boot time, but
entering 'mount -a' manually mounts them.
Some suggestions:
- Compile the driver for IDE CD-ROM drives as module so that the driver
can be unloaded and replaced by the IDE-SCSI
emulation. So IDE CD-writers can be used without recompiling the
kernel. Change kudzu for automatic detection of
CD-writers to load the correct driver module.
- Reiser-FS should be the default file system in general. It does not
only make sense in high-availability servers, but
also in notebooks and home computers which are booted very often. So
the fsck after 10 or 20 boots is avoided.
Till
