Is it just me or is the Mandrake installer incredibly buggy? I started with Mandrake at version 7.0. I have since upgraded through 7.1, 7.2, and am now trying 8.0. The upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 went smoothly and easily. But going from 7.1 to 7.2 was even easier: the installer bypassed any options I may have wanted and just did its own thing. Now going from 7.2 to 8.0 seems even worse. Going to 7.2 I chose expert mode and "Update". The installer quickly went straight to "Install system". But it did not allow me to choose which packages I wanted to upgrade. OK, I thought, it'll just figure out what packages I have and upgrade those. But instead it seems to have installed pretty much every package on the CD's. It asked me for all four CDs. When it finished it had installed stuff I had removed (like ALL of KDE), and it had removed some of what I had installed later (that were part of the Mandrake suite, like ncftp). I was pretty annoyed. There was no way to cancel, the system did not respond to mouse clicks. Now upgrading to 8.0 it looks ominously worse. My mouse does not work at all. I choose "Expert" and "Update" and am asked to "Configure mouse". None of the options I choose, including the one which has always worked before, have any effect. If I choose "No mouse" I get the following error: "unknown device none (caller is install_steps_gtk:/usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtk.pm: 192)". I can get no further than this step. I notice too the information box at the bottom of the screen is often wrong or out of sync, and the same goes for the list of tasks on the left of the screen. Finished tasks get a green star, in process ones get a gold, and upcoming ones get a red. Right now I am configuring a mouse, but the next task, which I have not yet got to, "Choose your keyboard", already has a green star. Has anyone else seen this? By the way I have seen these same things on 3 very different systems (two desktops and one laptop), so it's not just some hardware anomaly. The graphics keep getting prettier. Which is nice. Tim
