Good evening all, I hope noone minds a brief distraction from the
"bugs!" discussion thread!
I picked up the inaugural issue of Maximum Linux (from the fine gents
that bring us Maximum PC every month) because Mandrake 6.0 was included
on the cover CD.
I have to admit that I've been running Red Hat 6.0 for the past few
weeks and this is my first experience with Mandrake's latest effort.
The magazine listed the CD as bootable, but I was unable to get it to
boot from my new CD-RW. No biggie, I hooked up the old CDROM and
installed from there. Installation went without a hitch, and MaxLinux
was nice enough to include all but around 7M of updates.
However, I'm now having a problem trying to use the CD-RW as a CDROM
drive. Attempts to read from the drive get continual errors like:
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 1197548
hdb: cdrom_read_intr: data underrun (4
blocks)
Plugging in the normal CDROM yields clean transfers, so I've discounted
the possibility of cable or motherboard problems. Using another CD in
the drive doesn't show any problems either.
I've got to admit that installing from the magazine CD was quite
possibly THE WORST experience I've ever had. I ended up doing an
extremely basic install, copying files "by hand" onto the hard drive,
then installing everything and pruning out things I didn't need.
So, if anyone happens to wonder by the magazine rack and figure they'll
pick up a nice Mandrake CD from the magazine, THINK AGAIN. THIS CD IS
JUNK.
I'm in the process of copying files from the CD onto my hard drive so I
can burn a new copy of it. Wish me luck!
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
