On Monday 01 September 2003 09:46 am, Clive Dove wrote: > > I downloaded the iso image just after they hit the mirrors, ran md5sum, then > installed , leaving my pre-existing /home partition alone > > I wound up with a KDE desktop on which desktop objects, panel objects and > whole branches of the kde menu would disappear for no apparent reason. > > So I decided to find out what a new user would get. > > Started with totally clean partitions. > Installed Mandrake, using the default install and choosing all the workstation > options and KDE and Gnome and no server options. > > Got a primitive deskop with about 3 icons on it, a panel with a few icons > scattered across it and an apparently complete kde menu. > But as I tried to add applications such as Opera, mozplugger and java, the > desktop became unstable, icons would disappear and whole branches of the kde > menu would disappear, including the terminal window applications and the > Mandrake Control Center. > Erased 9.2 > Reported no bugs as the desktop never got to the state wherein I could > actually run applications on it. > I assume that people have been fixing things. I would like to try again but I > don't know how to get the fixes or, even better, how to get fixed iso images. > I had a look at the Cooker RPM directory in the mirrors holding the iso > images, but there are no parts of kde that are dated after the issue of RC1 > so they can't be the upgrade sources. > You should read the section of the cooker HOWTO about keeping up to date.
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo#Keeping_Your_Cooker_Installation -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
