I've just finished installing 8.1 on two machines - both previously running 7.2
Although I am pleased with the look and feel of the new system there are some definite shortcomings (IMHO) in the install/update process (if anyone from MDK is listening). First and this has been brought up before, why is there no "install everything" option? I dedicated a 40GB hard drive to this installation, I'd much prefer to have installed everything and then removed what I didn't want. Upgrading (which I attempted at work) is unreliable: as had happened once before, on a previous upgrade, everything seemed to go OK until the pwconv setp at which point the system seemed to go into a loop - I despaired after about 15 minutes and hit the reset and decided to do a complete install instead. Has anyone else had trouble here? Unfortunately, because of my first point above, I am mow spending hours (literally) cleaning up and installing everything I missed. I mean, I clicked on every possible box in the main install process and still got no command line mail reader installed! My biggest beef, though, is: what happened to Zope? It came on the download disk set for 7.2 but there don't seem to be any 8.2 RPMs anywhere on the disks or the Mandrake site. Come on folks, this is still open source and you used to supply it. An "upgrade" which doesn't include functionality you used to provide is no upgrade. I'm hoping not to have to go through with this by using the software manager function, although that too can be a little hard to understand and doesn't seem to offer me the chance to install new packages, at least not obviously. In short this has been a very disappointing process. My initial enthusiasm at the ease of installation at home, was first ameliorated buy the post-instal process there, then came the one at work, and I'm still in the post-install. Am I simply howling at the moon? -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. |
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