I kept waiting for the prompts from the old script and they never came. I
had to run through the install three times to figure out where the script
had been changed, and by then something had gone wrong with the boot
sequence. I could boot into Linux but not Windows. I had to reinstall the
Windows
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From: "Adam Williamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 install script is a booby-trap.
> Since this has changed, it's obviously been changed for a
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 18:40, paul mccarthy wrote:
> I do not understand what part of the message you consider a "useless rant"
> or why you say that I am not being sufficiently "polite". I have always
> considered the Mandrake packaging of Linux to be the best available and the
> installation scri
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, paul mccarthy wrote:
> I do not understand what part of the message you consider a "useless rant"
> or why you say that I am not being sufficiently "polite".
Calling software "a booby-trap" isn't quite a compliment ... and
the rest of the text contributes nothing in terms of
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Subject: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 install script is a booby-trap.
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> IIRC, t
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IIRC, the isolinux screens (hit F1) do tell you that you need to pass
expert mode to get into expert mode.
> When I installed 9.0 the last time, I made a boot floppy in case I
assigned
> the boot sequence
For some reason, Mandrake keeps changing the installation scripts for each
version of the package. All previous changes were cosmetic, but this one is
dangerous.
Earlier install scripts prompted for expert install and creation of a boot
disk. The new script moved the prompts off the main sequence
