Frederic Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > I just wanted to tell you guys at Mandrake and all the contributors that > you produced a very nice release indeed!
thx :) [...] > Minor ennoyances (using Powerpack Edition): > - during the installation, the windows for the individual package > selection were unusually small (I had to use the right-left > scrolling to see anything) > This was not happening in RC2. > - during the summary, same pbm. > This was not happening in RC2. > - during the services activation/deactivation, same pbm > This was not happening in RC2. Arnaud de Lorbeau also had this one time I think. But this happened too late and few for us to be able to reproduce/fix. > - during the disk partitioning (custom partitioning) the external > USB storage was recognized as sda1, the firewire drives were > recognized as sdb1, sdb2 and sdc1 > Trying to assign mount points like /mnt/multimedia, the installer > tried to mount /mnt/mnt/multimedia during installation, which should be normal, since "normal" system lives in the "/mnt" prefix. > I reported the pbm in bugzilla for beta2 I believe. > sdb1 was indicated as being FAT32 when it's EXT3... ouch. pixel could make use of /root/drakx/report.bug.gz maybe. > After changing the mount point to something the installer would > accept the rest of the installation was pretty straight forward > (except for the small windows pbm). > > - upon reboot the external devices caused some troubles as they > could not be mounted and I was presented with the fsck option or > Ctrl-D (kind of going circles here). > This may be due to the fact that during the boot up sequence the > firewire modules seem to be activated after the mounting sequence. sucks :(. that need a workaround or a fix in the initscripts :/. > The only solution was to somehow find a way to edit the fstab to > remove the definitions for these drives... or substiture "defaults" by "noauto" so they are not automatically mounted at boot time. [...] > The good: > - well, thanks to urpmi, contrib and plf pretty much everything is > setup and working well, audio, mp3, dvd playing, opengl (nvidia > drivers), games (CivCTP, quake3, RTCW, Neverwinter Nights ** those > are not available through urpmi, go buy them!), VMWare, *which* games??? :) -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
