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OT: Mandrake 9.0?

Jaqui jaqui at shaw.ca
Thu Oct 17 06:19:08 EDT 2002 
you may want to wait until 9.1
I'm involved with testing the development packages and 9.0 is a real bag 
to install, specially on systems with no floppy ( my laptop still won't 
take 9.0 and it has no floppy.
8.2 installs better than 8.1


Aahz wrote:
> In article <3da1cf2c.142326314 at news.laplaza.org>,
> Mats Wichmann <mats at laplaza.org> wrote:
> 
>>What sorts of troubles did you have installing 8.1?
> 
> 
> I got a cheap box that only had a CDROM drive.  The initial install
> mostly went okay, though I had some glitches due to what were reported
> as corrupted RPMs.  I ended up having to do a minimal install and then
> adding packages manually -- the problem was quite clearly with the
> installer and not the packages.  When I tried adding a CDRW, the only
> easy way was to reinstall, and in the process of installing, somehow I
> lost my partitions (and then I had to do the manual package adding
> again).  I don't expect it would have been much better with Windoze, but
> I was still annoyed.
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