[Cialug] Re: Mandrake 8.1

[Softwre Janitor <softwarejanitor@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think you are being unfairly harsh with your judgement of
Mandrake.  I've installed 8.1 a couple of times, and not had
problems with failed packages except once when I had a scratched
CD 2.  I burned a new CD and all was well.  Sounds like your
second CD is defective.

The reason it asks for whether you have all three disks is so
it can present you with the options for the packages on the
3rd disk.  If you didn't select any of those packages (and
that isn't completely unlikely if you selected something not
far from the defaults), then it never prompting you to insert
the disk is correct behavior.

--- "Robert M. Zigweid" <tigran@internation.co.uk> wrote:
> Ok, first off, I'm going to say that my favorite dist to date is
> Debian. 
>   I will also probably continue to use this, but I would like to know
> 
> which one to recommend to other people if they ask.  I wouldn't 
> recommend Debian to new users because it is definitly not the easiest
> to 
> get going, especially if you want to run Sid.
> 
> However, I thought that I would spend some time installing the
> various 
> distributions on my laptop.  I haven't gotten very far yet to be
> honest. 
>    I decided to start with Mandrake, so I downloaded the ISO's and
> set 
> out to install.  Needless to say, I was totally unimpressed.  For a 
> distribution that seems to tout it's ease of use for installation, I
> was 
> disgusted.
> 
> Now, here's why.
> 
> Ok..so this is my big beef.  I had a BUNCH of package instal errors
> from 
> disk 2.  Now, I didn't select 'Choose individual packages' or
> whatever 
> similar thing it was, but I did tweak which of the basic groups I
> wanted 
> to install (mostly turning off the server parts, and putting all the 
> desktop stuff on.)  I get to disk 2, there were at least 20 packages
> it 
> failed to install, reporting error messages.  I did not write these 
> down, but it's easily duplicatable and I can regenerate these.  At
> first 
> I thought it might have been something that I did wrong, but someone 
> else I know was running into the same problem.  (Unfortunatly I'd 
> recommended Mandrake based upon it's supposed ease of installation
> for 
> him...silly me for not trying it first)
> 
> Another, it asked if I had all three disks, which I do, and didn't 
> bother to request the third disk for anything.  This may be something
> as 
> simple as I didn't request any of the packages from the disk or 
> something similar, but it still sticks out in my mind.
> 
> My main question, is do others have this problem?
> 
> Ok..now, just so that it doesn't appear that I'm being all negative, 
> I'll state what I think are high points too.
> 
> The user interface was nice and snappy and graphical on my laptop.  I
> 
> had no problems with the interface giving me problems and found it
> easy 
> to navigate
> 
> Hardware detection.  It went flawlessly.  Even to the point of 
> acknowledging my printer after I initially forgot to plug the USB
> cable 
> in.  Went back, and it redetected it without a hitch.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
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