During install, I got some error messages:
There was an error installing packages:
xlockmore-5.1-2mdk.x86_64
perl-DB-File-1-B10-2mdk.x86_64
otherwise, incident free.
I would be very enthusiastic about mdk, but for one problem. When I had previously
installed the mainstream x86 version of official mdk 10.1 on my P4 computer, I encountered a jittery mouse situation where the mouse was jumping all over the place, re-arranging the desktop icons, and possibly worse. I did a Google search and found that others had similar complaints, but no one nailed down the problem. Someone blamed it on a cheap KVM; indeed, the KVM may be the problem, but when I bought mine 4+ years ago for $189 I did not think it was cheap.
For me, this is almost a show stopper. But, if I plug a mouse into the USB port, disconnect the KVM mouse from the ps/2 port; the mouse behaves as it should.
Being a bit pessimistic, I assume that the KVM mouse probem still exists. So, I used a USB mouse instead of the one connected to my KVM when I installed mdk 10.2 beta x86_64.
I am going to buy another HD before I try to install some other OSes; including Sun Open Solaris 10, SUSE Linux 9.2 eval, OpenBSD 3.6.
Some of these are new territory for me and I don't want to be overly concerned about what the MBR looks like with 3+ OSes installed.
Thanks again to everyone who has shared with me his success stories about amd64 OSes.
Rodney
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