On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 15:40, flacycads wrote: > I too liked 8.2 rpmdrake better. It alsways worked perfectly. I could live > with the new format, except that it now takes up to 5 minutes for each > operation (same hardware as I had with 8.2), if I'm lucky enough to get > through installing without it locking up. I also miss being able to see > what's in each package. I vote for the previous version, unless the > incredibly slow performance and lockups are fixed. Any advice out there about > the performance? It seems like Mandrake is searching for something on my cd > burner. This didn't happen with a regular cdrom drive. > > Robert Crawford >
Disk space is cheap compared to my time -- first thing I do with any OS (unless setting up a secured single-purpose system) is copy the install media to hard drive and reconfigure it to look locally for stuff it wants. That way I don't have to futz with CDs past the install phase. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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