I'm mentioning these as some were also in Freq 3. I am at present awaiting beta 2, which I will install midweek at the latest. Graphics card S3 Virge 86c325, 4096 kb video ram. Successfully tested x, but when I came to the question about wanting to start from runlevel 5, everything froze. I checked on the console the next time it happened, and the only message was 'installation completed, exiting instal'. Reiserfs, initrd not loaded. ext2, works, but have to run fsck and do a lot of repairs, then use xf86cfg or xf86configure to set up X. This even happened after I upgraded with a working xconfig file, the new installation deleted the working one and replaced it with rubbish. Rpmdrake. After upgrading everything rpm to the latest, it worked long enough to install two packages from cd. On next boot, even rpm was dead until I did --rebuildb. I then found that I no longer had a copy of rpmdrake, according to rpm and kpackage. Installed again, and I'm back to the old problem of rpmdrake claiming it is extracting packages (in a terminal) but nothing is installed and rpminst doesn't work at all. Gnorpm is broken. So much memory is used that even when using Blackbox, I run out of swap space at times. I have 160MB sdram and have used 120MB of swap for a long time with no problems. Now it seems as if I will have to increase swap by at least 100MB. Resolv.conf defaults to root as user with read and write permission for user only, no permissions for group or others. So for every internet session I have to open a root console and chmod before I can connect to my ISP's nameservers. I tried using the caching nameserver package, no luck even on urls I visit at least once a day. So I have to su to root and enter root password with an internet connection open. I'll let you know if I think of anything else really annoying before I install 8.1 beta 2. -- Anna
