Installation type: expert install from hd.img
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System: Gigabyte GA-6BXE ATX motherboard
Intel 440BX chipset
PIIX4 onboard IDE controller: no drives - disabled in BIOS
Intel PII-400
384MB 100 MHz SDRAM
PDC20267 Promise UDMA100 PCI IDE controller: 4 Maxtor drives
PDC20262 Promise UDMA66 PCI IDE controller: no drives yet
Adaptec AHA-2940AU with 1 IBM drive, DVD-ROM, writer, Umax 2400S scanner
Matrox G400 32MB
Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical - PS/2 connection (USB possible)
CTX-1792UA 17-inch monitor
SB AWE64 (isapnp)
HP-Colorado Travan T1000 floppy tape drive
USR 56K external Message Modem on ttyS01
3 1/2 inch floppy drive
HP DeskJet 720C
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1. Installation trouble-free, except:
Mouse detection still difficult to capture mouse in dialog.
Have to select network config twice - LAN and modem (after completing
one the damn thing *still* thinks you've finished - how about a
"done" button?).
2. Throughout install, drives recognised as hd{e,f,g,h}. hde goes up to
hde21. However, on first boot, kernel panic! Can't find hdf5 to boot
from. Of course, with this accursed "CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD=y"
kernel config, the drives are now hd{a,b,c,d}. OK, I passed boot
param "root=/dev/hdb5" to get in, but then I had to do file system
repair to correct fstab hd values. First I had to remount / rw. Then
after `vim /etc/fstab`, exit and reboot, I had to do file system
repair *again* to do `mknod /dev/hda{17-21} b 3 {17-21}`. The
installer had already created /dev/hde{17-21}, which are now not
needed.
This should not be necessary. I don't mind your crackpot idea of
using the "CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD=y" kernel config, as long as you
clean up afterwards.
3. For the first time I see anti-aliased fonts - but they're *horrible* -
I'll have to do some work on those. That terrible A D MONO font (all
caps) must have been at the top of the list somewhere, because until I
rebooted again, that was the KDE task bar font! - imagine!
Overall, there is pleasing evidence of a lot of good work done, but, as
with 7.2, it is spoilt by the lack of attention to "first impressions". I
think the freeze/fix/release period should be doubled in future to try to
avoid the half-finished appearance of what gets to market.
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Linux Mandrake release 7.2 (Odyssey) for i586
KDE 2.1
Linux 2.2.17-27mdkWin4Lin, Uptime 4 hours 41 minutes
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