Figured I might report some of these no matter how old the version might be. 2.4.17-ben0 won't compile. assembler errors. Compiles fine on 8.0 ppc. the *drake* tools are wierdly interdependant. removing drakmanu should not remove DrakConf. the mandrake_desk icons are tied to windowmaker, blackbox, gdm, gnome-core,gnome-telnet, mandrake_desk,mc,userdrake and a few other things. install-net is confusing. It should be install-remote-boot or similar. Sometimes FTPing packages fails. There's no option to retry.
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