Hi I just wanted to tell you guys at Mandrake and all the contributors that you produced a very nice release indeed! I upgraded to a silver membership from my standard one on the day the ISOs were made available to the club members to be able to get the Powerpack Edition and I do not regret it one bit!
In less than 24h I had both the Download Edition and the Powerpack
Edition downloaded and ~4Gb were uploaded from my BitTorrent (so I'm
about even here).
My hardware is:
2 x P3 733MHz (Supermicro mobo)
512Mb Ram
3 x HD (2 are connected to a Promise Ultra100TX2) ~150Gb total
SB Live! 1024
PCI card with 3 x USB2 ports and 2 x Firewire 400 ports
Internal CD-RW (SCSI using an Adaptec 29140N)
Internal Pioneer DVD-R106 (IDE)
Internal Tape drive
External USB Storage (6Gb HD)
External Firewire enclosure (1 x 120Gb HD + 1 x 20Gb HD)
iPod 30Gb
Sony Digital Camera DSC-F505
Minor ennoyances (using Powerpack Edition):
- during the installation, the windows for the individual package
selection were unusually small (I had to use the right-left
scrolling to see anything)
This was not happening in RC2.
- during the summary, same pbm.
This was not happening in RC2.
- during the services activation/deactivation, same pbm
This was not happening in RC2.
- during the disk partitioning (custom partitioning) the external
USB storage was recognized as sda1, the firewire drives were
recognized as sdb1, sdb2 and sdc1
Trying to assign mount points like /mnt/multimedia, the installer
tried to mount /mnt/mnt/multimedia
I reported the pbm in bugzilla for beta2 I believe.
sdb1 was indicated as being FAT32 when it's EXT3...
After changing the mount point to something the installer would
accept the rest of the installation was pretty straight forward
(except for the small windows pbm).
- upon reboot the external devices caused some troubles as they
could not be mounted and I was presented with the fsck option or
Ctrl-D (kind of going circles here).
This may be due to the fact that during the boot up sequence the
firewire modules seem to be activated after the mounting sequence.
The only solution was to somehow find a way to edit the fstab to
remove the definitions for these drives...
(I used another Linux installation to mount / and edit /etc/fstab)
- Once in KDE I changed the fstab to include all my drives (hardcoded)
without using the hotplug stuff (although I need to re-visit this
area as it's still a mistery to me how it really works).
- I've noticed that if my external USB storage is switched on during
the boot up sequence, it sometimes appears on the SCSI bus before
my hdc (with SCSI). It's kind of odd that an external device ends
up registered before an internal device... and it causes pbm with
the way the fstab is setup.
- I had the menu disappearing pbm when doing software installation.
This was repaired everytime by doing update-menus as root.
The good:
- well, thanks to urpmi, contrib and plf pretty much everything is
setup and working well, audio, mp3, dvd playing, opengl (nvidia
drivers), games (CivCTP, quake3, RTCW, Neverwinter Nights ** those
are not available through urpmi, go buy them!), VMWare,
iPod, VPN access to my company (with Cisco modules), etc...
- Encoding CDs to MP3 while at the same time using VMWare, uploading
MP3s to my iPod and transfering files from internal HD to external
firewire HD did not cause any troubles at all.
(I cannot say it was really fast, they're only old fashioned P3
after all but it was moving along rather nicely).
It's too early to say it will stay stable in all conditions (plus I
haven't tried everything yet) but I had a lot of pbms (crashes once a
day at least) with LM9.1 and more recently Gentoo doing these things so
right now I'm a very happy silver member.
Thanks Mandrake (and contributors of course).
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