On Monday 13 January 2003 06:53 am, Ron Stodden wrote: > Add points 4 & 5 to the below message: > > 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 noticed this here as well. This is extremely annoying. I had to backup my /home partition and reformat in order to install 9.0. > > 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.
