4. Cooker uses an ext2fs which is incompatible with the 9.0 extfs. When a 9.0 partition and a cooker partition are both present on the same dev/hd and one attempts an install or reinstall of a 9.0 partition, the 9.0 installer carks it loudly, complaining about the incompatible ext2 partition.
The most thoughtful 9.0 installer writer provided no escape from this situation, so the 9.0 installer CANNOT be run on this device at all.
This serious 9.0 show-stopper calls for a swift reissue of the 9.0 installer.
I have never understood why the installer even looks at any other partitions than those it is told to install into. This remark also includes the FATnn partitions which should be set up for mounting in /etc/fstab but NEVER automounted.
5.. Why does the 9.0 installer do such a poor job when told to install everything? There are about double the RPMs in the download tree more than what are installed and these never will be installed unless done manually. Whatever the philosophy behind this may be, the effect is that Mandrake has shot itself in the foot yet again.
Ron Stodden wrote:
On the assumption that the 9.1 beta 1 iso was created from the current cooker, I tried to install that cooker as expert, without any joy, as you will see.
1. The first thing I noticed was that it complained about all the RPMs for languages other than English were missing. That is because our mandrake downloader (see sig) deliberately does not download them.
The important question for Mandrakr is why on earth the installer has been altered to now require language RPMs that are not relevant to the user's language choice? It never did before. Kindly remove this 'feature' from the installer ASAP. For English users the affected RPMs are:
ispell
locales (all except -en)
fonts-ttf-gb2312 & -big5 & -japanese & -korean & -greek & -thai &-armenian & -tseii
OpenOffice.org-l10-ca & -fr
XFree86-Cryllic-fonts
fonts-hebrew-elmar
howto-html-de & -fr
mandrake-doc-fr & -it & -de & -es & -zh
koffice-I18n=de & -fr
kde-I18n-de & -fr
linuxconf-lang-de & -fr
man-pages-de & -cs & -hu & -fr & -pl & -ja & -ru & -id & -ko & -es
tapei-fonts
rxvt-CJK
2. The following RPMs are not present in addition to those in 1 above):
libtobe
unicon-input
FreeWnn
chininput
xcin
ami
kon
xa+cv
xenkb
XFree86-serever-4.2.99
libijs
ne
3. Trying to install scli hangs the macine. Ctl+Alt+F3 reports the RPM as bad.
No further installaltion is possible.
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Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]
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