[newbie] MDK 8.x installer

[Marius Schrecker]

Hello,       With the release of 8.1 just around the corner, and with my 8.0 version badly battered after a failed attempt to upgrade to KDE 2.2, I am looking forward to a partial re-install as soon as practically possible.         My box is a Compaq deskpro 6000 p.pro 180 (don't laugh), 106MB RAM and about 10 GB of HD spread over 3 IDE disks and about 10 partitions including doze and swap.       The trouble is that the installer for 8.0 and freq. June. crashes somewhere in the package analysis procedure giving a 'no hdlists found'. The only way around this seemed to be doing a minimum install on freshly formatted partitions (minimum number of packages on a minimum number of partitions), then mounting the extra partitions, /var, /usr/local, /home etc.  afterwards, and installing the extra packages from software installer.   Is seems that the problem is either in diskdrake or the package manager since avoidance is dependant on choosing a small enough number of packages to install, and the installer falls back to diskdrake on hitting the problem, At this point, however, I have to abort the installation and start again.   Is this a known bug in 8.0, or is it just me being stupid?   If it's a bug is it fixed in 8.1, or is there a better workaround than mine (which is complicated and unreliable)?   Cheers Marius