Alastair Scott wrote: >On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 10:14, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > >>I notice that MandrakeLinux-9.0rc2 went from >>the websites this morning, and seems to be replaced by, >> >>Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-i18n.i586.iso >>Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-inst-1.i586.iso >>Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-inst-2.i586.iso >> >>this is another beta ? >>not the finished article ? >> >> > >RC2 had big problems with removable storage devices and similar >(extremely wobbly detecting of my Clie), and also with USB hubs >(occasionally both of my hubs were dead on booting, and I was not the >only person with this problem) so the new RC3 is prudent; the kernel has >moved from 2.4.19-7mdk to 2.4.19-13mdk at least in the interim. > >I had to reinstall RC2 from scratch in order to begin to install RC3 (so >that RC2 would recognise my external USB CD writer; harddrake2 under RC2 >refused to 'see' it) :) > >Once all three ISOs are downloaded and the CDs are written I shall >plaster every removable storage device I have on (USB CD writer; USB >PalmOS handheld; USB solid state card reader) and see what happens when >I install RC3 ... > >Alastair > >PS This reminds me horribly of Windows 2000, when several hardware >devices I had at the time had no acceptable drivers for months and I had >to revert to Windows 98 :( > > Back in Mandrake9.0 beta2 it failed to detect my usb printer as well hope they fixed that problem by now. John
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