I'm doing a text install on 8.2beta3 and noticed something that, to me, is VERY important.
When one reaches the point of setting up the filesystems, there's no option to reload the partition table as there is in the GUI install mode. I tend to do a CTRL-ALT-F2 to get to a VC, use fdisk to wipe the existing table and re-create it, and then get back over to the GUI version in that mode, reload the table and then assign mount points and fs types. But one can't do that in the TUI mode (at least I couldn't find out how). I had to reboot and give it another go. Also, when one wants to change the FS type, there's no drop down box or any other method by which one can select one. The default is "Journalised FS: ext3", which is fine, but if I simply say "reiserfs" or "xfs", it fails when it attempts to write to disk. I know this has been missing on previous versions too, so I thought I'd mention it. Especially now that the minimal install is available, it seems that Mandrake's starting to gear themselves for the server market (where I've been using it for years). To get around this previously, I'd had to remove the drive from the machine w/ the terrible graphics card (who cares what kind of a graphics card is in a server where it's typically headless anyway) and install it in a secondary machine to do the install. Not ideal. At any rate, I can't imagine that I'm the only one that's attempted to use this functionality. And for those of us to whom the graphical install method is still quite new, it'd be *really* nice to get that working and fully functional. Just my $0.02... Cheers, -s __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com
