** Reply to message from Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:25:12 -0400
> George Czerw wrote: > > > So far, I've noticed the following problems: > > > Installation routine for making a bootable diskette does not work. > > 'mkbootdisk 2.14.19-13mdk' worked for me in RC3. The routine at the end > of installation wasn't fixed yet in RC3 iso's. But I had a SCSI configuration problem with lilo and I needed the bootdisk BEFORE I could get into 9.0 RC3. > > > Installation did not recognize ISA Crystal Tidalwave Sound Card (CS4232). > > The installer tells you to run 'sndconfig' after rebooting. Is that what > didn't work? After installation, I simply copied the contents of my old modules.conf into the new one to configure the soundcard. However, the point is that if Mandrake is trying to build & market a worldclass product, then it should also have a worldclass installation routine that recognizes the appropriate peripheral devices during the installation routine and installs the correct drivers at that time. A newbie would have one heck of a problem figuring out how to handle that. Besides, if Mandrake wants to draw users away from M$, it better get the installation routine as perfect as possible, and not tell the user to do something post-install. George
