I keep seeing all these posts for flaky installs of 9.1, but I thought some of you would like to know that not all installs are flaky. Here's some of the systems I've done in my home in the last few days since downloading the ISO's. By the way, each of these went flawlessly.
1) Asus A7V8X with AMD Athlon 2200+XP CPU, 512 Mb of DDR Ram and nVidia GeForce4-MX440, and 40 Gb Maxtor drive. System uses on-board Via Audio, and Broadcom 4401 Network Interface. Dual-Boot with Win2K. 2) Asus A7S333 with AMD Athlon 1800+XP CPU, 512 Mb of DDR Ram with 60 Gb Maxtor drive, and LG CDROM. System uses on-board Lan and audio, and nVidia GeForce4 MX440 video card. Dual-Boot with WinXP Pro. 3) ECS (Elite Group) K7VMM+ with AMD Duron 1.3 Gb CPU, 512 Mb DDR Ram, 30 Gb Maxtor Drive,and LG CD-ROM drive.ATI All-in-Wonder 7500 handles video. On-board audio and LAN finish it up. 4) PC133 "Giga-Pro" motherboard with on-board Via C3 CPU, 512 Mb SDRAM, and 10 Gb Fujitsu drive, and DVD ROM drive. System has on-board audio, LAN, and TV-out via SVHS. This system uses a Logitech Elite wireless keyboard and mouse, because it sits in my living room and plays DVD's for my home theatre, while also surfing the net via P.I.P. All of these systems installed over 9.0 installs flawlessly, and the only other packages I've installed are Netscape, Acrobat reader and Realplayer (all from Texstar), and Zinf for MP3, Streaming Radio - courtesy of Shoutcast, and CD Playback. Corel's Wordperfect 2000 Suite for Linux handles all the documents in the house. Since Mandrake hasn't released 9.1 Prosuite yet, I'm running 9.0 Prosuite on my server, but I'm looking forward to this upgrade! What's my point? This list has been around for years, and like you, I receive a mountain of email from it and a lot of help, but I almost never hear about the successes! I hear about people having problems, and the solutions, for sure, but what about the folks who install the latest version of our favourite distro without problems? It might be encouraging to newbie's to hear that some of us install Mandrake (or some of those "inferior" distro's Grin!Grin!), and have no problems getting it up and running. It would also give them a good cross-section of hardware that seems to work well with Mandrake. While I have received an enormous amount of help and knowledge from everyone who contributes to the list (and even helped some myself), I just thought it might be a good idea to start putting more positive posts on the list as well as the constant problem-solving items that we see all the time. What about the rest of you? Any success stories? Sound off and let the world know that Mandrake works for you! By the way, in the next month or so, I'll be upgrading my Internet connection to something ridiculous - Thinking of a T-1 or similar. Just doing some shopping for deals right now. When I do, I'll be setting up an anonymous server with some basic configs (ie; Samba, NFS, DHCP, ICS, Shorewall, Squid, etc.), with a clear focus on plain-language instructions. I want to include a "Tips and Tricks" section, and I'd be open to suggestions for other things. Since the connection will be expensive, I don't want to start putting huge amounts of packages on there, but certainly some good documentation for basic home user setups, and quick reference guides for many of the common problems that users face all the time. Members of the list will be able to use or contribute to these files. Anyone interested? Got any good ideas? Let's take this list to a new level. I'm sure that many newbie's would love to get help in the early hours of the night, and sometimes there's no one around to help. Having a site where they can get some quick answers would be a big help, especially when the configs are pre-built and require only a few minor modifications. If Mandrake ends up shutting down (God Forbid!) we'll need a new place to run a mailing list and some handy info. I'm up for it, so what about you folks? I'd love to hear from you. Lanman On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 15:23, robin.bcc wrote: > Keith wrote: > > >Has anyone else had problems with 9.1? > >My CD's md5sum match. > >SEVERAL install in 2 different AMD (1gig Duron 1.3gig Athlon), 256 RAM. > >Sometime bootloader would not install (tried ALL THREE) > >NO internet dialer... > >Many other wierd things... > >Went back to 8.2 Powerpak... > >You??? > > > On my office machine 9.1 upgraded flawlessly, except that I had to > reconfigure the printer. > > At home I had to do an install, probably due to those nvidia drivers I > mention earlier (I could probably have solved it by downloading new > drivers and hacking a bit, but it was easier to do a clean install, then > download the drivers at my leisure). > > I lost the KPPP icon, but after I'd started it once from the console, it > came back the next time I logged in). > > The installer didn't like my hand-compiled version of lyx 1.3.0 and made > me remove it. > > Mounted media seem to take a while before they are read. > > Mozilla 1.3 classes this list as junk mail ;-) > > Other than that, no problems so far. It's generally a very nice distro > indeeed, and well worth the wait. > > Sir Robin > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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