Greetings
Well after getting Mandrake 7.1 Beta 2 installed
this weekend with the cdrom.img file using a
text mode installation, I wanted to make a few
comments.
After installing, UDMA or ata/66 was not enabled
by default with the 2.2.15 kernel, and since I had
prior success with 2.2.13 kernel and the ata/66 ide
patch, I used that kernel. When you do a make
xconfig in /usr/src/linux (the 2.2.15) kernel, it
fails, but make menuconfig works fine.
During installation it selected the wrong
GeForce card, is selected a regular GeForce
instead of DDR, this was easily fixed with
DrakConf during post install though.
Also an issue with XFdrake, if you run this
from the command line, the max resolution you
can select is like 1280x1024 at 16bit, and
this would not do for me since I use 32 bit
at 1600x1200.
XFree86 4.0 was very easy to setup and
I commend Mandrake on making it such a
graceful task. Xfree86 4.0 has been
ROCK solid for me since Friday night.
One thing I also noticed was after
Install I selected High Security
via DrakConf (to basically take
all the crap I didn't need in
startup services), and then after
that I selected Medium Security, but it
failed to take out risky startup services
like 7.02 does so nicely. This is
not a big deal, so I just unselected
everything I wanted.
At anyrate, everything looks wonderful
and I have used every distribution there
is on the market and in my honest
opinion Mandrake is the best, with
Slackware 7.0 being next in my view
(still use slackware as my firewall).
Great work!
