Hi all,
I just finished installing Beta3, and I wanted to go over some stuff that
happened and that I saw in the installation.
First, my setup:
Tyan Thunder 100 (Dual processor- 440GX chipset)
This mobo has built in Adaptec AIC-7895 SCSI and Intel Ethernet 10/100
Dual PII/450 with 256MB PC100 SDRAM
40GB Eide HDD
Matrox G400Max
Creative Labs SBlive! Platinum (with LiveDrive -- front panel extention)
Creative Labs PC-DVD 6x Drive (I do not have the DXR3 decoder card installed)
Plextor 40x Max SCSI2 CDROM
Ok, now for my installation experiences:
I put the Inst cd (#1) in my Plextor SCSI2 CDROM and booted -- it booted off
of the CD, and the installation asked which CDROM I wanted to use (hdc|sdc)
-- I chose sdc and it tried to initialize the CDROM. The cdrom light came on,
and every 10 seconds I would hear a "clicking" sound. Eventually, the
installer timed out with an "Invalid argument" error and when it couldn't
mount the Ramdisk, it rebooted the computer.
I then swapped the CD to the DVD drive, and it booted off of it just fine,
and installation went very well after that.
NOTE: If you plan on trying to fix the sdc booting problem, I can retest this
for you as many times as you like, since it comes before any installation
stuff and won't cause a problem just by testing it past this point.
2 things to note about installation:
1) I really like the "stopwatch" "system busy" mouse cursor -- nice touch :)
2) I want to adopt the little penguin with the help sign at the bottom of the
screen -- my girlfriend would love him! :)
Question: How safe is it to go with "Hard Drive Optimizations"? I have a
fairly recent mobo and a VERY new HDD (2 months old at most) -- do you think
it would be safe to use those optimizations? And if so, how can I turn them
on after installation of the system?
The installation progress meter on the top never really hits 100% while
installing packages. It gets to about 70% and then the next package starts
back at 0%. Do you think you could make a little effort to force it to flash
at 100% for each package, when it completes, even if it has to jump from 70%
to 100%? That way it gives the appearance that the packages really ARE being
installed 100% of the way...
Ok, now for post installation:
During first boot up, a "Failed" message popped up for INND - citing "No such
file or directory" for "execvp". I turned this off in system services, since
I'm not running a News Server, but you may want to take a look at this for
those who will be.
LICQ didn't work properly -- I turned the dock icon on, and clicked "apply"
and it seg faulted (same thing happened after restarting it 2 or 3 more times
and trying again). To test whether this was Mandrake specific, or a problem
with the app, I went out to www.licq.org, and downloaded the latest source
file. I removed all of the licq rpm packages and installed the source file,
and ran that one -- it didn't have a problem at all with the dock icon (it's
running right now). Also, you might want to take a look at the qt-gui plugin
configure option "--with-kde" -- since this distribution is KDE2 based, you
might want to turn that on, if you haven't already.
Ok, that's all I have right now, thank you very much for making such a cool
distribution, and have a great day!
-Steven Hatfield
