I have Mandrake 8.2 up and running on a twin P3 desktop and now my laptop. The desktop went without a hitch because the disk was erased and full installation was done. My laptop was much more difficult. To start with, I had to use the usb.img kernel on floppy to get anywhere in the install process. If I just ran the cd from the start, the install program would simply vanish after the serial detection. Booting with the usb kernel got me past that and to the upgrade. Things went smoothly until I tried to recompile the kernel with acpi instead of apm. Found out that the links in /etc/alternatives were broken. I had then pointing to 3.0.1 which of course got upgraded to 3.0.4 but the by then the links had been broken. I had to go back and manually but the links back in /usr/bin and correct the ones I had in /etc/alternatives. So far, that was the only glitch.
Good work Mandrake. Al
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