After reading such a lot of complaints, cries for help and even last
whispers of broken down users, all about problems with installing Air;
After I was told by Alix and some other Mandrake guys to be very
sensible with the install if I don't want my Windows98 wiped (as if I
cared about a thing which asks for quarterly install-fests!);
After all that I took a daring stand and did an install after the book.
Put the MDK 7.0 CD1 of the PowerPack in my CD drive, hit the reset and
told BIOS to boot from CD.
Great graphical install procedure. Jumped into DrakX, erased my Linux
partitions (did I back up my data?) and left the Win partition alone.
Created new partitions (all on a 8.4 IDE disk), formatted and went on
with the installation.
What else:
I installed the complete system within 3.5 hours. Involved was:
1. Flawless hardware recognition of SCSI controller and CD writer, also
grafics card and soundcard (Soundblaster AWE64).
2. Could choose all packages to install or not to install, dependencies
were automagically resolved.
3. First reboot took me right to the kdm where I found myself as a
mini-Tux.
4. Second stage was installation of my ISDN card. I had my Netscape up
and was looking at my favourite site within 20 minutes.
I tried some applications and all the stuff I did with Helios.
Everything just worked out of the box so far.
Oh, BTW, I must not forget to read the installation guide sometime when
I'm not busy. ;-)
Great stuff!
wobo
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