On Friday 17 October 2003 14:46, Ron Stodden wrote:
> Buchan Milne wrote:
> > Of course, it would be nice to have it working by default, but Ron
> > always goes overboard on his small niggles in the first two weeks of a
> > release (he could have tested this in the beta series of course ...).
>
> Not so.   I periodically tested the cooker tree for the ability to
> create a good install and a running Mandrake.
>

Try this script; it creates a 1680k formatted floppy.

> Results:  Effectively it never does - no, not once! - and this includes
> through the times that the ISO betas and release candidates were available.
>
> So there is no choice but to abandon beta testing for people without the
> bandwidth to download CD images.   The CDs are constructed incomplete
> anyway because of space limitations, therefore not worthy objects to
> test.    Stick with the trees, please.

-- 
John Allen,                          Email:  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
MandrakeClub Silver Member.

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