you need to do an expert install if you wish to select packages individually
Rachelle DuBey wrote:
> My complaint is that you can't choose individual products . They all seem
> to come as units - even using custom. I have no problems with xfs using
> 7.0. But I miss being able to add other products such as daemons
> individually. This packaging seems to be designed more for
> newbies. Or is the iso image released on 1/12 just a late beta? At this
> point we are trying two production machines (one an upgrade and the other a
> new install) . Msec seems to shut down a few services including the ability
> to telnet into a box. I fixed my earlier problem by going into drakconf and
> setting security to low. However the upgrade box - didn't install drakconf.
>
> At 08:05 AM 1/24/00 -0800, michael chopek wrote:
> >On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, alann scribed:
> >=> Over the past days I've seen a LOT of things cross here about 7.0.
> >=>
> >=> I have a wonderful working 6.1 system now, and Linux Mandrake is my MAIN
> >=> OS.. I'm seeking an honest answer here. Should I upgrade, or are there
> >a lot of things (
> >=> bugs ) creeping around.. Some of the main things I've got working I
> >don't want to break,
> >=> internet ( obviously ) using KPPP, IP masq ( letting the wife on ),
> >=> SMB,.. I want to upgrade, but after the flood of messages, are these
> >mainly hardware
> >=> specific things or just some more work needed??
> >
> >Hi Allan;
> >
> >If you are planning on upgrading a "production" machine to 7.0, IMHO I
> >would avoid it.
> >
> >I upgraded to 7.0 from 6.1 exactly one week ago and in this week 7.0
> >has twice managed to bomb the "XFS" making it impossible to get into X.
> >
> >Friday was the first time it bombed the XFS, I reinstalled and managed
> >to configure everything perfectly over the weekend...only to have it
> >bomb the XFS this moring.
> >
> >All I did was turn the machine on and now my XFS is "dead" and so is my
> >X........grrrrrrr..... :-/
> >
> >So that box gets unplugged and stuck in the corner until someone can
> >tell me how to fix this without a reinstall.
> >
> >Another *highly* annoying thing that 7.0 is doing is that you can not
> >copy_&_paste from any KDE app into Netscape...what pain.
> >
> >I read through all the archives this weekend, regarding using
> >Ctrl-C...Alt-C...it just does not work.
> >
> >Also for me...."supermount" is a super-pain and I wound up removing
> >anything that refered to "supermount" so I could get my CDRom and CDR
> >working.
> >
> >I am a Mandrake fan and am really trying my best to give 7.0 a fair
> >shake...but this XFS bombing and killing X is a major pain in the ass.
