Well, I read the posts from Ray, Collins and Ted with interest while
I was downloading with a 56K modem - 3 or 4 days. The CDs burned OK
and here are my obsevations.
INSTALLATION
My box has wintendo98 (disk 1), Mandrake 8.1 (disk 2), and Mandrake
Cooker (disk 4). Disk 3 was ready for ELX, formatted reiserfs using
Acronis OSS Disk Manager. The Mandrake disks are ext3.
Custom install was impossible. The installer's kernel doesn't know
about ext3, so I told it to only mount disks 1 and 2, but it gave up
with the message: "I don't want to disturb my existing boot menu."
So I wiped disk 3 and started again using default install (ignoring
the ext3 partitions - I'd fix fstab after install). All went OK,
except I was disconcerted by the welcome message "ELX WELCOME'S YOU"
- there should be no apostrophe here.
POST INSTALL
I have to boot using the floppy - with the hard disk I just get "LI".
I've run /sbin/lilo a couple of times - no error messages with -v
but still no good.
Important (for me) packages missing:
locales (installed --nodeps from Mandrake 8.1)
kde-i18n-de (installed OK from Mandrake 8.1)
kde-i18n-en_GB (installed OK from Mandrake 8.1)
kde-i18n-fr (installed OK from Mandrake 8.1)
gkrellm (installed OK from Mandrake 8.1)
rsync (installed OK from Mandrake 8.1)
sudo (installed OK from Mandrake 8.1)
Supermount works fine using /mnt/cdrom -> /dev/scd0 and /mnt/cdrw
-> /dev/scd1.
Here are my desktop files for them:
[Desktop Entry]
Comment=CD ROM
Exec=kfmclient openProfile cdrom
Icon=dvd_unmount
MountIcon=dvd_mount
Name=CD-ROM
Terminal=0
Type=Application
[Desktop Entry]
Name=CD-writer
Icon=cdrom_unmount
MountIcon=cdrom_mount
Type=Application
Terminal=0
Comment=CD-writer
Exec=kfmclient openProfile cdrw
I had to create the /usr/share/apps/konqueror/profiles/cdrw profile:
[Main Window Settings]
MenuBar=Enabled
[Main Window Settings Toolbar extraToolBar]
Hidden=true
IconSize=0
IconText=IconOnly
Index=0
NewLine=true
Offset=-1
Position=Top
[Main Window Settings Toolbar locationToolBar]
Hidden=flase
IconSize=0
IconText=IconOnly
Index=1
NewLine=true
Offset=-1
Position=Top
[Main Window Settings Toolbar mainToolBar]
Hidden=false
IconSize=0
IconText=IconOnly
Index=0
NewLine=false
Offset=-1
Position=Top
[Profile]
Height=480
Name=CD-writer
RootItem=View0
View0_LinkedView=false
View0_LockedLocation=false
View0_PassiveMode=false
View0_ServiceName=konq_multicolumnview
View0_ServiceType=inode/directory
View0_ToggleView=false
View0_URL=/mnt/cdrw
Width=640
I too have not got Webmin to start yet and I haven't been
able to check how kylix works - still lots more playing
around to do.
By the way, I don't think it's anything like Mandrake.
--
Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales.
Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ).
Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586
Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin, XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk.
KDE: 2.2.2. Qt: 2.3.2. Uptime 16 hours 25 minutes.
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