On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 10:14, John Richard Smith wrote: > I notice that MandrakeLinux-9.0rc2 went from > the websites this morning, and seems to be replaced by, > > Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-i18n.i586.iso > Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-inst-1.i586.iso > Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-inst-2.i586.iso > > this is another beta ? > not the finished article ?
RC2 had big problems with removable storage devices and similar (extremely wobbly detecting of my Clie), and also with USB hubs (occasionally both of my hubs were dead on booting, and I was not the only person with this problem) so the new RC3 is prudent; the kernel has moved from 2.4.19-7mdk to 2.4.19-13mdk at least in the interim. I had to reinstall RC2 from scratch in order to begin to install RC3 (so that RC2 would recognise my external USB CD writer; harddrake2 under RC2 refused to 'see' it) :) Once all three ISOs are downloaded and the CDs are written I shall plaster every removable storage device I have on (USB CD writer; USB PalmOS handheld; USB solid state card reader) and see what happens when I install RC3 ... Alastair PS This reminds me horribly of Windows 2000, when several hardware devices I had at the time had no acceptable drivers for months and I had to revert to Windows 98 :(
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