Hello,
I think the best place to help with the Mandrake distro would be these two
points which would be considered part of the install process.
1) When the Install is formating the partitions, and check for badblocks is
enabled, It would be nice to have the machine search for the badblocks and
mark them "unwriteable" I have a machine that was a gift and there were a lot
of bad blocks in one place. This caused the install to hang while trying to
format these blocks and eventually exit with a signal 11 (maybe 7?) The only
way I got around this was to mark that art of the disk as a separate partition
and not do anything with it. This is better than Gates ware because it
wouldn't even let me do any thing.
2) the configuration process could have a better help system. From the install
to getting the final tweaks in. I had no idea what a signal 11 or seven were.
I had no idea how to view the documents for help setting up the internet.
Everything seems to be online, and as a beginner, with no resources, i could
not get online to get the online help to get me online. If the install process
had a "BoneHead Install" option it would save a lot of new comes many
latenights of frustration.
Atta boy to Mandrakesoft for asking our opinion. Billy sells you $300 of what
he wants you to have. Mandrakesoft is Giving us what WE want.
Thanks for listening to my opinion.
Ivan Trail
