Matt....the "back" button is the column of colored circles on
the left side of your screen.
Alan
"Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" wrote:
>
> > Finally gave up and went with RedHat 6.1.
> >
> > Maybe when LM7.1+ comes out I'll take another look...
> >
>
> Unfortunately, I have to agree with you. I was running Mandrake 6.1 at home
> and work. I upgraded the home machine to the Oxygen beta and everything
> still works (still running the beta), although I haven't stressed that
> machine yet.
>
> At work, I had to load Linux on another machine that was going to be used as
> a low-end server. I tried installing LM7.0 Air six times! Every time, the
> damn install failed to install something (one time it was Drake stuff,
> another it was ncftp). To top it off, the later installs couldn't load X.
> It kept giving me a 'Id "x" is respawning too fast. Waiting five minutes.'
> or something close to that. Plus, supermount never worked, saying it wasn't
> supported by the kernel. Never did figure out the problem. I, luckily,
> found a site with the mandrake61-1.iso file. LM6.1 loaded up with minimal
> problems (nothing critical) and it is running fine right now.
>
> I'm impressed with some of the new features promised in 7.0. However, it
> came out the door with too little testing. Some examples:
> - the selection of packages is completely non-intuitive. I can't figure out
> what is going on. Plus, accidentally unclicking an item ripples a bunch of
> other packages to the "don't install" mode. How the heck am I supposed to
> guess which buggers were turned on? The old install package selector wasn't
> pretty and wasn't easy, but it sure got the job done.
>
> - There's no "back" button (I know this was mentioned before). If you make
> a mistake, you must give the machine the 3 finger salute.
>
> - The formatting option does a quick format, not a detailed format. I like
> the increase in speed, but am I sacrificing anything for that feature?
>
> - If you have a partition table already set up, the install won't give you
> the option to "check for bad blocks", and I was in "expert" mode. I got to
> this point (of having a partition table with no formatting or bad block
> checks) because I 3 fingered a previous install of LM7.0 gone sour. I find
> the RedHat partition program (a girl's name which escapes me now) worked
> better for me. At least give the "expert" users the choice of which
> partition program to use.
>
> - Why do I still get, on booting the CD, the ability to pick "expert" on the
> lilo line? It doesn't seem to do anything.
>
> - This is nit-picking, but the install asked if I wanted to create an
> emergency floppy. I had only hard drives and a CD drive installed.
>
> I know the Mandrake team invested a lot of time into this release. They are
> to be commended for their past accomplishments (up thru 6.1) and the desire
> to push the envelope. When the Mandrake team wants to add major feature
> changes to the distribution, however, a much longer beta period is needed.
> I will help with beta testing 7.1 when you reach that stage.
