Thanks and Kudos to everyone who worked on Mandrake 8.0 Perfect install on an abit kt7a-raid with duron 850, 256 MB pc133, sblive!, and ibm deskstar ata/66 drives. Install finished during the burning of two cd's and part of the 8.0 mandrake extras cd (less than 30 minutes total). Graphical login was perfect. Network and gateway configuration was perfect, mounts too, xmms works with music library on a vfat partition. This system had been crashing and locking up with Win98 second edition even after all the updates, latest bios, and latest drivers from the vendors. When the sblive software was installed it became very unstable. Now with Mandrake 8.0, I'm listening to some wonderfully soothing music from Adea in my MP3 library (yes I own the cd!) and composing this. Cups printing works perfect with my usb connected hp895Cxi printer using the hp supplied driver. Now if I can figure out how to make xawtv work with my ati pci all-in-wonder tv card, I can watch the mariners kick some b.... while I ...( what do penguins do anyway?) trundle over the keyboard. Yeehaa! Thanks! Obrigado! Arigato! Merci Beaucoup! Gratia! Gracias! Efcaristo (sp?)! Tom Berkley
