-----Original Message----- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 3:08 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Installation of 8.0 Beta 1 I downloaded and installed the beta yesterday. Here are just a few of my impressions. The system on which I ran the installation is an 800 Duron Asus A7V MOBO 384MB pc133 ATI Radeon 32MB DDR 3 ATA100 hds connected to the on board Promise controller ide cd-rom ide cd-rw ide zip100 Linksys Lnetx100 ver.4.0 SB Live value 7.2, because of the onboard controller, could not/would not install on the system but the 8.0 ran right out of the box, so to speak. I ran the installation in Expert mode, Recomend and Expert only no custom option, and installed all package qroups except for the Servers, and it required just under 2GB of drive space. KDE 2.1 and the 2.42 kernel are both the defaults. I also choose to install X 4.0.2 with experimental 3D support for the Radeon. All hardware was correctly seen and automaticlly set-up. There is a problem with sound, system sound will not work regardless of which window mgr. is used, though I can pop a cd in the drive and it plays with any player. (They got rid of the damn padlocks too, thankfully) DrakeConf has become an "all inclusive" program, the only problem being that when you close it or any part thereof it causes the X server to crash. MandrakeUpdate crashes while fetching the update list and is unusable. FYI by the time of 8.0 release MU will no longer exist as a solo app but will be incorperated into RPMDrake. Over all I must say that I am very impressed, especially considering that this is only beta 1. If I can install some of the apps from the 7.2 Powerpack I may not even bother booting 7.2 again. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
