Eric, I didn't do a upgrade, just a new installation, according to
civileme recommendations about partitons (just /home and / mounted, the
last one on the /object 7.2 partition).
Now I just have problems with 3d acceleration of my Voodoo3 3000; the
rest is going fine (well, as 7.2 usb report error, but doing the
installation by hand I reached my usb scanner work).
With beta 1 I haven't cd access, any acceleration, most of the packages
gave me errors....... Beta 2 seems to be a lot better, but I think
upgrades never have worked well in Mandrake (I have lot of problems from
7.0 to 7.1, from 7.1 to 7.2 and....
Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)
----- Mensaje Original -----
Remitente: eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fecha: Jueves, Marzo 9, 2000 5:09 pm
Asunto: Re: [Cooker] Beta1 and beta2 installation report
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> (1)When I upgrade from beta1 to beta2 , I can not load cd2 either.
>
> (2)after upgrade to beta2, did you tried mount any cd(regular iso9660,
> ie. 7.2 cd1 or music cd, dvd) mine is not be accessable.
> oot@lshih /root]# mount -V
> mount: mount-2.10q
> [root@lshih /root]# mount -a
> mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not
> exist
> [root@lshih /root]# cd /mnt
> [root@lshih /mnt]# mkdir cdrom
> mkdir: cannot create directory `cdrom':
> Permission denied
>
> when I put in a 7.2 CD in my cddrive
>
> [root@lshih /root]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /mnt
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda,
> or too many mounted file systems
> (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
> ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
>
> need help , especially from mandrakesoft who familiar beta2
> sincere
> eric
>
> Jose Antonio Becerra Permuy wrote:
> >
> > Hello! I was going to send you a report with my
> experiences with beta1 when
> > beta2 came out, so I send you a "all in one" report :-) Beta1 was
> an upgrade
> > of a 7.2 system and beta2 was an upgrade of the beta1.
> >
> > * Problems present in beta1 and fixed (I think) in beta2:
> > - X had ridiculous values regarding memory use in "ps".
> > - kppp was not setuid.
> > - openuniverse did "segmentation fault".
> >
> > * Problems present in beta1 and which may be (or may not
> be) in beta2 (I
> > don't know due to the nature of upgrading):
> > - squid package was unable to create squid user or group,
> I don't remember
> > which one now :-(
> > - pspell, pspell-devel, gimp-libgimp and xmms-oggvorbis
> are "old" packages
> > which were not uninstalled despite the fact that I installed the
> "new"> corresponding packages.
> > - psacct package didn't make the files in /var/log, so I
> had to create them
> > manually.
> >
> > * Problems present in both betas:
> > - During installation, when it finished copying packages
> from the first CD,
> > it asked for the second CD but I was unable to change the CD
> because it was
> > being used for some process. BTW nice pictures during
> installation ;-). Which
> > ones are going to be in the final release?. I propose penguins'
> renders or
> > drawings with penguins doing surf, skying, playing football, etc.
> :-D
> > - A manual entry in grub (menu.lst) for a kernel compiled
> by myself was
> > deleted.
> > - Makefile in kernel-source should have kgcc as the
> compiler instead of gcc
> > (or can the kernel be safely compiled now with gcc-2.96?).
> > - iptables-restore is unable to load a file which I have
> stored with
> > iptables-save.
> > - Aurora doesn't work with Matrox fb device (this
> happened with 7.2 too).
> > - I had a Microsoft IMPS/2. If I select "generic ps/2
> mouse with wheel" in
> > installation the mouse behavior is erratic. I have to select
> "generic ps/2
> > mouse". Once installation is over, I can safely select "generic
> ps/2 mouse
> > with wheel" in mousedrake, it works fine (this problem happened
> in 7.2 too).
> > - rpmdrake doesn't refresh package list after
> uninstalling a package.
> > - Doing "supermount enable" manually generates entries
> for supermount
> > capable devices with noauto option, which I think is not desired.
> > - All directories in /var/log except "squid" and
> "security" missed their
> > execution permission for all users (including owner)!
> >
> > Ok, that's all for the moment. I hope it will be useful.
> > See you in next report! ;-)
>
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