I installed mandrake 7.2 from the beta 2 cd on an AMD
thurnderbird 800.
- Changing
the mouse type to intellimouse renders it useless during the install.
- 1220C
printer driver prints blank page, using 1600c works fine.
- INND:
startup says execvp: no such file or directory
- Battery
misspelled in daemon selection list
- CD-RW
has /dev/cdrom linked to /dev/scd1 instead of /dev/scd0. Resetting the link works fine.
- KDE
screen save config errors out (actually many of the KDE programs don’t run
or error out).
- Setting
up DNS during install doesn’t seem to write to /etc/resolv.conf
- iBCS
doesn’t seem to work, it loads ok, but can’t load a SCO binary. (This seems to be a AMD related
problem, because 7.1 has the same problem).
- Xfree
4.0 uses tons of memory and doesn’t have the DGA setup so VMWare doesn’t
work.
- VM:
has trouble freeing memory pages so memory consumption gets larger and
larger. Writes a lot of error
messages to the console.
- Disk
partitioning during setup allows you to format the partition, then it gets
re-formatted in the next step.
Also partitions you didn’t want to format get formatted as
well. This is with ReiserFS.
- Partition
a /u2 with more than 20G (I tried 25G) and the install will not complete.
- Many
packages from 7.1 that I use regularily are not included. (Could be because I didn’t load
the extension CD). Kisocd is
the main one that comes to mind.
- Any
reason not to put the expert package selection in the installed os so it
would be easy to change the configuration once installed. You have outdone yourself on this
one, it is much better than any software selection I have seen.
- Do
you have anyone trying the RAID controllers? I have a DPT and AMI that I could try, all previous
versions of mandrake did not install with these controllers as the primary
drive (unlike RH which has since 5.0).
This will be a pretty awesome OS once the kinks are worked out. Anyway, due to the memory and kde
crashing problems I switched back to 7.1.
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