I have an Athlon 700, 256MB Ram, > 40 GB hdd space. I did a fresh install (I learned of the pain of attempting an upgrade long ago with Redhat). Installed with success my USB HP Deskjet 845c color inkjet.
I did expert install and selected my packages as I always do, adding extras this time because I have the space. Right away, unstable. I rebooted numerous times and often find that I have to power down completely for about 30 seconds under such circumstances to get the system to cleanly and successfully bootup. I immediately disabled devfs (Why in the world would Mandrake have that activated by default? It's buggy as all get out to this day). After numerous such problems and 3 (now) reinstalls, I tried to build a new kernel - I usually end up running my own kernel anyway. Failure galore. No "make xconfig" possible (cannot find "cpp0"), no "make menuconfig" possible (ncurses problems - I'm still working both problems)...only plain old "make config" (talk about painful and error-prone). I also appear to now (with 8.2) have some hardware problems...I have 2 CD drives, one CDROM and the other a CDRW. Using either, I often ran into failed/corrupted package installs during install and had to restart the whole process in most cases (because instead of a "retry" option, you are only given the option of terminating the install or ignoring the problem). The CDs are clean and I never had this problem before 8.2. It MAY be coincidence... No locate command. No netscape/konqueror plugin install (this should install by default rather than require a hunt and manual install). It appears that 8.2 does a partial gcc 3.0 and partial gcc-2.96 install instead of a proper and full install of either or both - which I believe to be at the heart of the problems in trying to build a kernel. I truly fear installing and using gcc 3.0. This version of gcc is a big incompatible mistake. It is broken in design and I would MUCH rather use gcc 2.96 but it appears that the gcc 2.96 supplied by Mandrake on my CDs is incomplete...what's up with cpp? Or ncurses? Among the many options I selected, I did select development platform so I could build various and sundry applications. Kernel building is one of the very first things I always do, on laptop or desktop. It never fails me, well, until 8.2 came along. Now I have to do a bunch of troubleshooting to ATTEMPT to get kernel building to work. This makes me suspect that I would have great difficulty building ANYTHING. On Wednesday 08 May 2002 10:09 pm, nDiScReEt wrote: > On Wednesday 08 May 2002 09:23 pm, you wrote: > > LOTS of problems with the 8.2. I am this close to > > dumping it and going back to 8.1 until I can pick up a > > SuSE package...that's right, definitely considering > > jumping ship here. This after I specifically coughed > > up the money to support Mandrake by buying 8.2 instead > > of simply downloading it. > > > > I am now full of regret, I must say. And I am sorry > > for it. > > > > praedor > > what is your hardware? cpu, ram, usb devices, ..etc? Did you try a "text" > install? Did you choose an upgrade or full install? What are the peculiars > of your install process? No errors during installation? Need more input. > Good to find good feedback on a bad situation. Now provide us with > valueable data please.
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