Hi all, Just wanted to drop a quick note that I got Mandrake 8.2 beta installed via cd from ISO's. Things are working more or less. I will get more details when I have time to sit down and write up a detailed report.
My system: PowerBook G3 "Firewire" aka Pismo. 400 MHz G3, 320 megs ram, 10 gig hdd, 24x cd/dvd drive, Rage Mobility 128 (aty128fb driver). I did get a working triple-boot setup thanks to Ben Reser's advice! (os 9, os x, mandrake linux) I am not new to Linux or Mandrake, and in fact I had run Mandrake 8.0 on this laptop for a while, but had been wanting to set up a triple-boot for a while. Using the 8.2 beta iso's was the perfect opportunity to try this, as well as help out the community. One thing I will say in this email is that it was quite a tight squeeze getting what I wanted installed. I only have a 1.4 gig partition dedicated to linux, and most of it was taken up during install. I didn't install any games, office apps, scientific apps, or development tools. I really wanted to get the dev tools on there, but they more than doubled the size of the install, and greatly exceeded my available disk space. There are a lot of things that don't seem to be working due to dependency issues, and I have a feeling that some of those would be resolved if I could get the dev libraries installed. There is also some general flakiness that I would expect from a beta. I'll give more detail when I get a chance. Were I still in college I would stay up all night to get this working, but there is that pesky work thing in the morning... ;-) Cheers, Peter
