Hi all!
First of all, thanks for Mandrake.
Probably it's a wrong list, nobody calls me an expert, but I myself
think I'm not a beginner already ;-)
I have a suggestion for a next version of Mandrake.
Trying to burn Mandrake-6.0 CD and having a previous experience with
RedHat 4.1 - 5.1, I downloaded the 6.0 tree and updates and then "cleverly"
replaced the packages from Manrdake/RPMS with updated packages.
Thought the disk will be "better than original". You know what happened
then ;-)
I've got a disk and tried to install, but the names of packages
appeared to be hard-coded as a whole, the installation allowed me to
choose packages, formatted partitions and then failed to find the kernel,
lilo, initscripts etc. Linux went from the comp.
So, I think it's maybe better to scan available packages before and
choose existing ones for installation.
Also, the installator checks the available space, which is nice.
Are the sizes hardcoded too? My next step would be to move Mandake/ tree
to windows partition, change the names to 'before-upgrading' ones and
try to install from that partition, but usually updated packages are
bigger.
Redards,
Tima.
