> During the installation:
> - at the end of package upgrading (it seemed) (the indicator
> said 
>   it was in the Summary stage), the installer went into a loop 
>   where it gave an Error complaining about being unable to find 
>   printer-utils .  Whenever I clicked 'Ok', it briefly said it  
> 
>   was searching installed packages (don't remember exact text)
>   and then it flicked back to the error about missing 
>   printer-utils.
>   I wound up aborting/rebooting into a semi-normal session, 
>   grabbed the latest printer-utils RPM from a Cooker mirror (I
>    had one installed but it was slightly older), and then went 
>   back into the install-from-CDROM; it bogged down at exactly
>   the same point. :-(

This bug has been reported many times ;-)
See http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4561

> - clicking on the icon on the menu bar to start drakconf
> prompted
>    me for the root password but then went off into the weeds and
>   never appeared onscreen.  guess usermode still a little wacky.
>   I became root first, then started drakconf manually from a 
>   shell.

It's fixed in Cooker.
 
> - drakconf stuff:
>   * in Boot :: Lilo/grub mode, the text said:
>     "You are currently using  as your boot manager".  When
>     I went to configure, it showed I was using graphical lilo,
>     but even after I confirmed graphical lilo the missing
>     text was never filled in.

It will be fixed soon, see
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4499

Thanks for your reports, you can fill bug reports on
qa.mandrakesoft.com, but please check if there are already reported
before :-)

-- 
Olivier Blin

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