I would like to say thank you for all the good work the maintainers and testers have done on Mandrake 8.0. The install went very smoothly and was easy. I encountered three significant problems during the install and was able to work them all out. Problem 1) The XWindows configuration routine could not recognise all the memory on my ASUSTek V3800 TNT2 m64 card (32 MBytes). The fix was to add a line to /etc/X11/XF86config-4 file telling X how much memory was on my card. Problem 2) Timezone. I set my timezone to Asia/Bangkok. On reboot, my system clock came up in GMT. A search through the archives and a correspondence with Andrej enlightened me on the timeconfig utility (not installed by default???). I installed it, but no change. I then looked at /etc/localtime. It's supposed to be a file, but in this case it was a directory and a duplicate of /usr/share/zoneinfo. I moved /etc/localtime out of the way, reran timeconfig, and now I have the correct timezone set. Problem 3) Even though my ethernet card was detected during the install and configured as well, the machine still booted up with my ethernet card unconfigured. When I went into the Mandrake configuration tool and configured my LAN connection, and rebooted the machine to be sure that it worked, no joy, and no LAN. I finally traced through the network configuration scripts and noticed there was no /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file even after configuring it. My solution was to touch ifcfg-eth0 and then save the configuration from the Mandrake configuration tool. Apparently, the Mandrake configuration tool can't create a new file, but it certainly can modify an existing one, at least so far as an ethernet port is concerned. I wanted to add a word of thanks to whoever thought to add Bastille to Mandrake 8. This utility is great. The configuration from the Mandrake configuration tool was OK, but I needed to enable my LAN connection as well. I had a look at the bastille-linux configuration script. It's well commented and was very easy to configure for my particular network. Thank you again for all your good work. Best regards, Arnold -- Arnold Troeger Unocal Thailand Phone: 011-66-2-545-5456 5th Floor, Tower 3, SCB Park Plaza FAX: 011-66-2-545-5374 19 Ratchadapisek Road, Chatuchak Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bangkok 10900, Thailand ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Microsoft Windows: for when your machine is just too fast"
