hey Mark --
sorry to hear you had such a nasty turn of events. i rather wonder about this also.
when i installed 7.0 everything worked great.
when i installed 7.1 i had no printer and a persistent "failed" message on shut down.
installed 7.2 yesterday --
3 fail messages on start up
4 fail messages on shut down
LILO no work over 1024 cylinder
number lock goes off when X starts
i told the install program where to mount each partiton -- some of them it did exactly
what i asked it to do, some others it put where it wanted them ?????
i told X a resolution of 1024x768 (or whatever it is.... like i remember) but i got a
resolution of 800x600 when i actually started up X
i created a user account when installing yet when i booted the system first time,
there were no user accounts, only root.
had to boot into the console only mode - when i tried to use 'shutdown' to shutdown
(duh) the system locked up & i had to power off.
finally, all the files on my /home had a different owner once i got my user account
created, so i gotta run around 3 partitions (/home /backup /home/skippi/work) and do a
chown.
the 7.2 install does seem to be a very bad animal.
of course, my problems are not near the level of yours.
i agree with the "don't fix what ain't broken thing" and i learned that yet again when
i upgraded windows direct x 7 to direct x 8. now half my games don't work. oh well,
i wanted to spend all weekend fixing my computer anyhow. =)
i don't mind your venting. who knows, 7.0 may find it's way back to my computer if i
can't fix all this stuff.
Adrian Smith
'de telepone dude
Telecom Dept.
x 7042
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>>> Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6:35:54 PM 12/6/00 >>>
Geez! I wish I would-a had one of those fancy install thing-a-ma-bobs this
afternoon when an install attempt of Mandrake 7.2 wiped out my entire
friggin workstation! Who's the nit wit responsible for so drastically
changing the install program and process?
When, during the first install, a few too many errors cause major problems
with running the system after a rebooted, I restarted the install process.
Sadly I didn't recognize what was happening till it was too late. The
installation program, on it's own started an auto-install and in under 5
seconds wiped my entire workstations hard drive. 10 friggin GB's of
data...GONE!
Never before in my life have a ever seen a program behave in such a
severely BAD manner. It didn't ask me what I wanted; I, of course wanted
to do an expert install where I have total control of everything that goes
on. There's a certain way I want the OS installed for certain reasons.
In a nut shell when I booted the system with the floppy that I used to
boot the system the first time which went off without a hitch, the rotten
bastard went straight into an auto-install.
Mandrake, when you can make a mess of an experienced users machine like
this I think it's time to take a look at a lesson that I again learned the
hardway. If it isn't friggin broken...DON'T FRIGGIN TRY AND FIX IT. LEAVE
things as they were when they WORKED!
I'm refering to the installation process. A few KEY things were changed
and just enough to cause a moments confusion which cost this user 10GB of
data. Most is backed up on the servers, but there were still some things
that I hadn't gotten to. Now I'm going to have to go back and RE-do the
things that didn't get sent up to the server...not to mention I've got one
HELL of a fight on my hands getting that beast backup.
Thank you to the list for allowing me this chance to vent. It's pretty
much final that 7.2 will NOT make it to my home PC. KDE2 & Koffice or not.
Mandrake 7.2 is one Penguin that is going to be sanctioned with extreme
prejudice!
Mark
/ * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat
* in order to get the rats up from below decks
* so they can be kicked over the side and drowned!
*
* REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496
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