"Sean Armstrong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maybe you enjoy a subpar product. This problem began with Oxygen, has
> continued through with Air and 7.02. That is three distributions that have
> had the same problem. The bug was not present in any Mandrake dist. BEFORE
> 7.0. I've been talking on the Mandrake lists and to Mandrake themselves
> about this problem since the relese of Oxygen. 7.02 is just as good as BETA.
> If you wish to use a subpar product feel free. But I do not think this
> enhances the image of Linux, but rather, brings it down. Mandrake was in
> such a hurry to get out from under the shadow of Redhat that they rushed an
> unfinished product to market. I'm not the only one that has come across this
> 'failure to initialize cdrom' issue. If the installers for Mandrake 6.1 can
> initialize this cdrom, then they ought include someof that cosde to overcome
> the problem.
this is not that easy. To nicely fulfill the installation, the install kernel
has to be in a really special shape.
the other pb is that we don't have any such 'failure to initialize cdrom' error
here. if we had, we could test...
as for rushing out, we can't do much thing when the kernel is against us, even
more when we can't reproduce. The pb is the same with some scsi cards... People
don't understand that the kernel is a moving thing and it *breaks* things when
it evolves. It's necessary!
