On Sunday 23 March 2003 09:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > First attempt. > > Complete failure to install . > > a) Very very long wait between install catagories . Everytime you click > "next" you wait an eon betfore the next install window appears. > > b) The install eventually completely stalled , trying to enter "install > a screen driver", a blank grey/white window appears with the words next > bottom righthand corner, but with zero sensitivity. > > Eventually I gave up trying to get it to move on and rebooted , > reinstalled the original M9.0 lilo and rebooted again only to find the > system could not fsck /dev/hda7 (the M9.1 install partition), something > about not being able to check the count or something, I soon dropped to > a terminal and formatted the same partition which restored the boot to > desktop in M9.0. It would seem the file system was dodgy.I don't know > what it was though. > > Not wishing to be a pessimist, I must say that at so late a stage in the > life of this release I cannot but wonder what will be the use of it . > > John This is interesting, I have been using rc2 and updating with cooker mirrors on a daily basis since it came out. Over the couple of weeks or so that I was updating it continued to improve and bugs went away. I did not ever have the slow install problem you were having. This would be good info for the Mandrake design team if you could determine what the problem really is. How is your computer set up? CDROM speed and other info? Primary and Secondary set up etc?
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