Mandrake 7.0 I find to be a buggy disapointment, on one system I used the
DrakConfig to adjust the security level, it destroyed the system when my system
shut down it locked up, then when rebooted it asked for runlevel and hung when
i entered anything.
Not to mention my fetchmail now says unable to access SMTP.
looks like 7.0 should be renamed <Beware> in stead of <Air>
(im not giving up on Mandrake though... I'll give em some time to get some
patches posted and see if that fixes the problems...)
thanx
david
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> tommiy....I'm sorry but I don't have any ready solutions for
> your present problems. What I do have are some suggestions as
> to how to prevent such problems in the future. Anyway here's
> what I do. I have one primary partition and one extended
> partition on my 9.1 gig scsi hard drive. The primary partition
> has windows on it and uses 1/3 of the space (just under 3 gigs)
> on the drive. The extended partition takes up the rest of the
> drive and contains 6 partitions. It has in order a 15 meg ext2,
> a 128 meg swap, a 2.6 gig ext2, a 15 meg ext2, a 128 meg swap,
> and a 2.6 gig ext2. The primary partition is sda1 and the
> extended partition contains sda5-10. This leaves room for 2
> linux installations of /boot, swap and /. When a new release
> comes out I install it clean on the set of 3 partitions I'm not
> currently using. Then I can slowly customize and install
> updates till I'm ready to stop using the old version and start
> using the new one on a daily basis. I've never upgraded, but
> instead always installed each new version fresh and migrated to
> using the new release slowly. There are other ways too, but
> this method is mine and I've never had any severe
> disappointments.
>
> Alan
>
>
> tommiy wrote:
> >
> > Well when 7.0 came out i got excited and bought the CD thinking...hey
> > 6.1 was cool...damn 7 must be better....what a dissappointment.....
> >
> > I selected an upgrade and now I find I have an absolute multitude of
> > problems to work through....seems lots of things are now broken....all
> > come with the distro...
> >
> > First my ppp scripts no longer function...cool huh and all I used to use
> > was ifup ppp0.
> >
> > This is now broken by a new app in the initscripts called ppp-watch. Now
> > if I try the old ifup ppp0 ppp-watch barfs and rejects it. Off to the
> > source code time to resolve that...in the mean time I probably broke
> > everything and went back to the init scripts from 6.1 to make it work
> > again.... oh by the way this also appears to make linuxconf ppp side of
> > life to fail as well...it gives the same errors in messages....kppp
> > still goes but I hate KDE! Would seem to identify where the testing went
> > thou.
> >
> > Also appears that the IDE patches weren't in the kernel cause my ALI
> > board chipset is no longer recognised and installed as simplex...DOH!
> > off to get another patch and patch the kernel....
> >
> > Next for some reason starting gnome is as slow as an absolute wet
> > week!!! On 6.1 it came up fast....on 7.0 it takes approximately 3
> > minutes for the desktop icons to appear.......
> >
> > Sigh appears that the reasons I went to Mandrake are fast dissappearing
> > ;((
> >
> > Anyone have some cluse to the slow enlightenment startup I would
> > appreciate.
> >
> > Regards
