Just yesterday spent $29.99 on a retail box L-M 7.1 and i have a few comments. 1 the ide detect croaks completely if i don't have a drive connected to hdb (normal config) 2 you can not not install a boot loader (choosing none loops after LILO scribbles over the boot record) 3 Grub install on my system didn't (guess Grub blew up finding a boot magic mbr) 4 Xfree86 4.0 install didn't wait for correct settings (i have an s3 chipset and an old PB monitor) 5 on my second install after deselecting ALL packages it took an hour to install 250 megs of files 6 i have a 2.4.0test2 kernel installed and it messed up my net modules (going to recomp anyway but...) a suggestion maybe what should be done is have a seperate mode for "Possibly current mandrake users needing to Lockpick to fix problems". What you could do is ask for the location of the Root and then find the RPM database from that info and work from there starting with "do you need to just fix mangled settings?" side note trying to make the version.h file doesn't work anybody know of a "extract the info from version.h and print to stdout program" btw since i have a "funny setup" fixing my system required both the BM panic disk and my ZipSlack disk system info P75 running hda win98se hdb not present hdc win98on lower half LM on upper hdd ide cdrom Boot Magic installed primary bootloader with LILO cascade on hdc two Creative labs modems and a SoundBlaster 16 PNP none of which Harddrake sees and a Hauppage TV card that makes HD go HUH??
