Overall I was pretty well impressed with Mandrake 7-0-2, it was one of
the first distribution where I did not have to spend a couple of hours
tweaking it to my liking - well done. However there were some minor
problems:
I was amazed it detected my 40x cdrom drive as an IDE drive and the
cdrom writer as a SCSI device without me having to compile the kernel.
However I could not access the writer via the supermount icon mandrake
placed on the desk top. After playing with kfstab and telling it that it
was a SCSI device ie. /dev/scd0, it mounted and I could access it via
the desktop icon. I hope this was the right way to go about it.
I experienced a little bit of trouble with automatic install in that I
would have liked to see a picture of where Mandrake was going to load
the system and I would have also liked to see where it was putting Lilo.
But the second time around I used the non auto install and it went well
as I could direct and confirm all the above.
This is lots better to drive than SuSE as I had to compile the kernel to
achieve what came standard with Mandrake. I also experienced that it
detected and set up the drives and windows partition better than Caldera
(to my surprise as I though it was pretty good).
Nev
