Hi,
While working with mandrake 7.0, I also faced some problem as the X
based installation is written in perl-gtk and it has some bugs. The
"expert text" installation is nice!! But in some typical cases the X
based installation goes fine.
The partitioning tool in X based installation is quite jazzy.
Despite it's some install related bugs, the product I found is quite
stable (I am writing this mail from mandrake7 pII m/c). The official
pack of Mandrake7 comes with
cool stuff like IBM DB2, IBM-JDK, SOffice, .......
As I faced problem with the mandrake 7 installation, I made a kickstart
file to automate the process and it makes hickless installation. If
anyone is interested, then I can share it.
In conclusion, it is a good product which can be a used well by the non
techie enduser
Archan Paul
Lateral Linux Labs
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Sthitaprajna wrote:
>
> This is some sort of an attempt at a review of MandLinux 7.0 and it may well
> turn out to be long..
>
>
> The installation autoboots from the CD on restarting, but the promised
> graphical DRAKX tool never started(this was also seen on 2 other installs,
> though the distro promises it, of course-maybe some probs with the h/w). Then
> it drops you into the Redhat type blue-screen install and asks for all the
> nonsense about your keyboard, then type of install-and here, you run into the
> first glitch, says "No partitions detected". So, Mr/Ms Installer, exit
> install, and partition the disk for a swap(in my case 32-hough not necessary)
> and a native /.
>
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