Dear friends, After 13 hours I downloaded the beta1 and try to test it using my /dev/hdb13 partition that was previously using LiNeX (Linux distribution from the Extremadura Spanish community). But I have a real nightmare:
a) My wheel mouse wasn't runing fine, in the selection packages I had to use the intro key. b) No possibility to cancel lilo installation (I liked to mantain the 9.0 lilo configuration and later add from 9.0 a new entry for 9.1beta). c) No X configured (nvidia geforce 4 and monitor Philips 107S); I try to do it but having supermount enabled the disk didn't mount in anyway. I try to dissable supermount (supermount -i disable) and activate the new fstab configuration (mount -a) but two partition that I have mounted for echange of files with 9.0 had XFS file system and there were an error: "XFS not in enabled in the kernel" :-(. After that I thought I could mount the cdroms by hand, but an error gives me to more frustation about too much system mounted, or file system error. d) I try to restart using my Mandrake 9.0 start disk, but then an error with file system appear for /dev/hdb13 (the partition with 9.1), telling that I do need a newer version of ext3 :-(. e) I started my computer from the Mandrake 9.0 first cdrom, start a new expert installation, just select the /dev/hdb13 partition and format it; then I restart and Mandrake 9 run fine from the floppy; I went to the Mandrake control center and lilo configuration; I didn't made any change, but clicking accept the 9.0 lilo configuration was again saved on the harddrive. I restart the computer and then the lilo 9.0 runs from the hd. Conclusion: I will reserv the cdrw with 9.1 beta 1 to save beta 2; I think I will not try again an installation until the next beta. :-( -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia Campus de Espinardo E-30100 Murcia España (Spain)
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