I was pleasantly surprised when I installed 8.2 final on my notebook today, and it picked up the (Linksys) netcard correctly and worked on the first boot! I even got Samba running in like 10 minutes (of course I'm pretty familiar with smb.conf at this point...) Good job(!) on that one, I never though you'd get it fixed for release.
On the down side, partitioning still seems a little messed up. The biggest problem is that it doesn't like multiple primary partitions (even though it will happily create them, if you install with an already existing partition.) I was a little nervous about doing the install on my laptop, when it said things like "ok to loose partition" <NO!>, then went on to diskdrake and it claimed I had a 30+g hard drive (it's 20g!) But feeling brave (reckless), I decided to chance it, and it seems to have worked just fine (haven't checked to see if windows still boots, but it'd be a small loss.) On my desktop system, however, I just cannot get past the partition error message. Even after I said NO to loose partition, it kept comming up with an error--something about "_blanking_" (? looked like a function name.) After I hit OK a few times, I gave up and rebooted my machine. Thinking Partition Magic might fix it (it has in the past), I let it make it's fixes (there _seemed_ to be one for each time I hit "OK"), only to be greeted by a large yellow bar representing my HD with the words "BAD PARTITION" on it... Ugh... (Note however that both 8.2rc1 and Windoze will still boot and don't seem affected.) So, if you'd like to look into this problem, let me know if there is any relevant information I can send you (partition tables, logs, exact messages, etc.) Thanks, -Jason P.S. Maybe releated. cfdisk chokes unless I give it the original geometry that was in the bios--in which case it properly reports non-overlapping partitions. (I tried changing the bios to match what sfdisk thought it should be, but no joy.) Is there some way that I can specify the correct geometry during install? -- ========================= 'Never trust a ruler who puts his faith in tunnels and bunkers and escape routes. The chances are that his heart isn't in the job.' (Guards! Guards!)
