Hello.
I was wondering why 8.0 installation is so small even if I select all of the
packages. Even, not all the packages appears in "detailed selection" (eg.
pine!). I guess this is not a perfect solution, at least for workstation.
I bought a pc for a friend of mine 2 days ago, there is a 30 GB hard-drive.
All of the latest computer come out with no more than 20 GB of hd. Now that
we have such infinite space for installation, we drastically reduce installed
programms.
We can now install 200 themes for each windowmanager and other silly things!
OK, you say, that's too much. But at least you should provide a kind of
button during installation like "INSTALL ALL"!!! I mean: if my hd has 30 GB,
I do not get worried if 4-5 GB are sucked for a very complete system, even if
I will lose other 260 MB fot OpenOffice6!
Now, programms get better in quality and numbers, while installer reduce
installed programms. I have
/dev/hda2 6047252 1686564 4053500 29% /
/dev/md0 3023504 475976 2393944 17% /home/claudio
/dev/hda3 5039248 4 4783264 0% /mnt/ready
/dev/hdc6 16223640 122364 15277164 1% /usr/src
but nothing to burn cd with! 1.8 GB, and I cannot find cdrecord, pine,
WindowMaker, xfce. Why not XFCE, for example, if during installation I
selected "other window managers"?!?!
I think that stupid workstation-users like me, with 40 GB of hd, would really
like a COMPLETE installation, without "rpm -Uvh --force *" to have a
COMPLETE system!
I can understand those with servers, I even have some servers with 200 MB of
software, but I guess that we're talking of expert people, people who know
how to finely tune the installation. But on the other side many many people
choose Mandrake (as I can read on Italian m.l. and newsgroup) for it's a
COMPLETE distribution. I'm happy to "waste" 5 GB for a self-sufficient Linux
System installed in 10 minutes. All is ready after first reboot.
Now thing are gonna change?! :°°(
Claudio
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System: Linux Mandrake (8.0-beta 26/03/2001 install)
Kernel 2.4.2 on Dual Pentium III - 800 MHz
256 MB Ram - Raid Level 1
