Hi all, I thought, with another Installfest coming up, that I would share my recent experinces with Mandrake.
Hardware - 2 old Compaq servers, A 6000 with PII/300 and 128 Mb RAM, and an AP500 with Dual PIII/450's and 256Mb RAM. (Both have SCSI hard drives) Mandrake 9.2 installed OK on both, the only problem was the ISA sound cards - both the ES1868n and the ES1869 were detected OK with sndconfig though) Mandrake 10-Official was not so successful:- On the Compaq 6000 it would boot up and just a few steps into the process told me that no CD drive was detected. There may be a way around this but it was not obvious to me. (9.2 worked fine) On the Compaq AP500 the installation went OK but even with sndconfig the ES1869 was not detected (9.2 worked fine). I am now trying an "upgrade" over 9.2 to see if that will get me the sound. Certainly looks good with Kernel 2.6 and KDE 3.2 though. (I have these at home on Gentoo) Any of you got any other war stories which may (or may not) help us before the Installfest? -- Robert Fisher www.fisher.net.nz
