First of all I have to say that MDK 10 is very pleasing eye candy. It's fast with the 2.6 series kernel and it's a pleasure to use it.
The download via Bittorrent went smoothly and I continued to share it for a couple of weeks. (I'll get it back up soon once I get something here fixed :-) ). The only problem was that CD 4 wasn't recognized on installation and had to be added manually later. I'm thinking the problem is the folder name RPMS5 instead of RPMS4. In any event, it wasn't serious. Updates went smoothly from the listed update sites. Sound works, all hardware was recognized and both machines came up flawlessly. Now, onto the problems. I think the first one about the unreliablity of reading and, apparently, writing CDs and DVDs has been answered in that I probably don't have magicdev (??) installed and I'm using automount instead. It seems automount is installed by default for some strange reason and yes I'm using the 2.6.x kernel. The second issue is more troubling. When setting up internet connection sharing the wizard fscks all networking. I can always reach the internet before I set it up but not after. I admit I haven't had the time yet to look too deeply into it so I don't know whether or not it's the shorewall installation, the "transparent" proxy or if it just screws up the settings on the NIC. What I have noticed is that the wizard insists on setting up my eth1 card which is the one the internet connects to as static and eth0 as dhcp. It should be the other way around. This was a problem with the older releases up to 9.1 when it suddenly worked as I wanted it to. Ditto with 9.2. 10 seems to have taken a step backwards in assuming that eth0 is the one heading to the outside world. Nevertheless, it's caused some headache and I've been wondering if anyone else has experienced this. It's not a big problem as I can set it all up manually if needs must. Incidentally, the machines installed on are an old Dell Dimension and a newer Sony Viao desktop. Next victim will be my laptop :) ttfn (a generally very happy) John
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