Marc, I just attempted to upgrade my Mandrake from 6.5 to 7.0, and guess what eneded
up on my system in the end? I did not like the 7.0 install at all. The graphical
instal looked great, but failed to give me mouse control until the system rebooted.
This would not have been a problem, except that there was a scroll box of info. at the
bottom of the screen that was inaccessible w/o a mouse. You do have the option of a
text-based install by typing "linux text" at the CD-ROM boot prompt, however in the
end it still did not go well. I tried a fresh install on my second hard drive, where
6.5 had resided just fine, and worked successfully w/ Boot Magic, however, when I
attempted to boot, LILO died, and the only way I was able to get linux to booot was
from a floppy (Yeach!). Ultimately, was much happier with the older version. Just a
few thoughts!
Allen Linkenhoker
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On Tue, 06 Jun 2000 21:32:47
lawson_whitney wrote:
>
>
>On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Marc Mutz wrote:
>
>> Richard Adams wrote:
>> >
>> <snip>
>> > Then Slackware still seems to be "The system." ;-)
>> <snip>
>
>I just wish Slackware install scripts wouldn't chown root files they
>think should be owned by user 0. I just have to chown them back. root
>is user 1015 here. But for all that, I like Slackware. I bet the other
>distros are no better.
>>
>> Yes, so it seems. Interesting how Mandrake behaves on upgrades. Will
>try
>> that very soon :-)
>>
>> Marc
>>
>> --
>> Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marc.mutz.com/Encryption-HOWTO/
>> University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
>>
>> PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS/DH)
>
>Lawson
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