Ken Hawkins wrote: Hello Ken, > > Just to vent: ok. i'm all ears.
> > Had a perfectly functioning 7.2 on my laptop. That was easier than any > other OS (windows or linux) I tried. Total plug & play. MDK 7.2 was the first version of mandrake that i had too, before it was RedHat 6.x series. Mandrake 7.2 has to be by far the best OS i have seen till now. Esp since i am newbie. > > Then I decided to try 8.1 for all the updates and extras...what a piece > of SH!T! hmmmm, after MDK 7.2 it was MDK 8.1 beta 2 on my system which was a bit buggy, but then there is a part for us to live up to and report these bugs, to mandrake. This is what i did and to their credit i got a swift response and the final release i.e. MDK 8.1 works fine on my rather shabby system. Celeron 666 Mhz, Jetway 618 Mobo based on the intel 815e chipset, 40 GB + 4.3 GB hdd both seagate, 384 Mb ram PC133, 56x acer CDROM drive and ATI all in wonder display card with the RAGE 128 processor. The sound is on board. > > I know a lot of people worked long and hard on this, and I have been a > Mandrake supporter since V.7.x > > I tell people how easy the install is, how they don't need to be a linux > guru to get busy doing stuff. Robust, stable, versatile. sounds like the mandrake that i know. also mandrake supports a large number of filesystems which makes it much easier to access your data from other non linux partitions. > > Now I have to turn around and say to those people, whatever you > do....DON'T upgrade to MDK8. > > I am not a guru, but neither am I a novice; I pissed a whole day away > trying to have desktops that didn't go flakey, and Multi-Media that > worked..No such luck. Now I am going to rollback to 7.2 did you use the 3 cd set for the installation ? perhaps if you could be more specific about the problems you faced someone on this list may be able to help out. if you downloaded the iso images, is it possible the iso images were corrupt ? > > If Mandrake is still trying to target the average desktop PC user, they > will have to totally rethink the installation process for 8. > > Version 8 is a step BACKWARD as far as ease of installation and use go. the installation process worked just fine for me. like i said before if you find a bug please submit it to the mandrake guys, or post it to this list. just ranting will not get you anywhere. I know you are pissed, but then lifes a bitch so if it doesn't work, fix it. If we could, we would love to help you out. regards, mario
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