I just installed 7.1 on a small laptop (P100, 40Mo RAM, 800Mo HD) from
network using pcmcia install.
Pixel and others did a good job improving installation. Great.
bootp/dhcp didn't work, though. Alt-F? said things like "/sbin/ifconfig:
not found" or the like, but manual config worked. (I should have written
that down...)
I'm disappointed about urpmi (what I consider the killer utility for
Mandrake; I remember when Pixel explained his idea to me during a lunch at
Palaiseau, it was a great idea actually...) : it is broken in 7.1 ...
urpmi rpmdrake says "no package names rpmdrake"
wget was missing after install... isn't it needed by urpmi ?
dependencies say no.
/etc/urpmi/urpmi.conf contained strange entries: in the path, the
"/Mandrake" part was missing, and other oddities.
Surprisingly install worked correctly.
I installed wget with manual ftp download.
I tried urpmi.removemedia and urpmi.addmedia to reset all this, tried
another mirror... it downloads the hdlist correctly like in 7.0 (do I have
to specify the hdlist of hdlist.cz2 file ? I tried both, no luck), then it
says "generating dependencies list", and then throttles forever, cpu is
sleeping.
This is very annoying for a "finished" product.
Looks like this is a beta... ;)
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