First tried to use the iso, but couldn't get a reasonable download speed
off either mirror. Maxed out at 30kbs from the France ftp site.
Decided to try a network install, downloaded network.img and used
rawrite to burn a boot floppy. Boot floppy did boot the computer, but
then asked for another (unknown) boot disk.
Gave up on this approach.
Downloaded the hd.img file and wrote a new floppy. This booted fine,
asking me to locate Mandrake files.
I rebooted into Windows, used Gozilla to download the beta 2 tree from
MIT's mirror, and aftrer several retries got it all onto a windows
volume.
rebooted with the hd boot, located files, and began the install.
Everything went well, using the custom option for a development install.
Detection of SCSI card was good. Also picked up 3c509 ISA card presence.
Partitioning and formatting went smoothly, although no explanation found
re: Reiser partition choice. Good to see package selection and
percentage option clarified.
Printer config picked up HP870CSE, but failed to install proper filter.
Got through package install and post install routines, and into X
config. Detected a Matrox G200 card, presented resoultion options, and
then failed test. Tried all different res cmbo's for my monitor and
card, none would work. Decided to ignore it, finish install and reboot.
Was able to reboot from hard drive, but got a string of error messages
while booting into X.
Rebooted and tried to reinstall X from Upgrade choice, but couldn't.
rebooted in to Linux, and started noting missing librarys. Using MC and
rpm --force, copied following libraries to Hard drive:
libXiso6
libX11so6
lib Xmu so6
lib font.so1
Rebooted, ran X configurator and configured X sucessfully. Had to insmod
3c509 to load card module, and had to run netconf to activate network.
Currently up and running, hope you can iron out install problems before
release.
If I can give you any more info, please let me know.
Marc Sitkin
