"S. Stubbs" wrote:
> Hey, I am a bit peeved. When mandrake 7.2 came out, I went and
> downloaded the ISOs. I got DSL and CDburner so it was easy.
> Well, being a newbie, I wanted to get a manual or something, and
> heard that if you buy a distro, it comes with extra CDs of apps and
> stuff, and of course a manual. So I wanted support and all these things.
> Well I went to Wal-mart and bought Mandrake 7.2 Complete Retail
> box version since it had 4 CDs and manual.
> I take home and install. Then I started having a few quirks and problems,
> of course I did mandrake update to update the prerelease version of
> kde to final 2.0 version, and other stufff.
> Well, still had a few quirks. I missed my Webmin tool from 7.1 and
> I missed a few networking tools from 7.1 but alas they were no where
> to be found on the walmart distro. I was quite perturbed and disheartened.
> Finally late last night I went and viewed my downloaded ISOs of
> 7.2, and FOUND WEBMIN and MORE STUFF on the downloaded version!!
> So, since my walmart distro was not quite right, I took a chance and
> installed afresh the downloaded 7.2. NO MORE prerelease kde!!!
> I had hardly any updates necessary!! I got more networking stuff, everything
> seems to be running better!! The downloaded version is MUCH better.
> I am definitely PEEVED that I spent $$ for the walmart version and would
> like to know if there is a way to contact macmillan since I think they are
> misleading people about the retail box version!!
> I am just an inquiring "newbie" mind, saying my rant.
> susan
if u want to rid yourself of your old 7.2 discs, i'll give em a try. i'll buy
em from
u if u dont need em and then i'll do my test and we'll see. my 7.1 on
my machine works great and works the first time installed. just curiour
pat ,
and welcome to the newsgroup susan.
