knowfear Posted February 19, 2004 Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 So, first I spent hours figuring out that I have to pass noapic to the kernel or else my install won't even get past the first stage, then I need to chose the 'expert' install option because the generic install option does not recognize my USB mouse Now, the installation will not recognize my second harddisk controller even thoguh I pass the ide2= and ide3= parameters (which recognized the drives in beta2, btw) so I can't install on my drive! While I am able to install on my harddrive with the ide2/ide3= parameters on cooker snapshot 2, I get many more problems down the road that I haven't been able to overcome, including: devfs lost all my drive information on reboot, and to reinstall with devfs=nomount to fix network did not work kde did not install even though it was selected during the installation can someone help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted February 19, 2004 Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 Network setup is not really working, after installation and reboot, the GUI in mcc (drakconnect?) says it has to restart but doesn't really. service network restart as root did it for me; and I handed in the bugreport too, it should be solved. Your other problems, I don't know... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 19, 2004 Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 if you're not doing the rc for helping w/ bug reports etc...then just get beta1 or 2 and update w/ cooker. Same thing, and it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knowfear Posted February 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 I guess I expected RC1 to have less bugs than Beta2, which I had LOTS of problems with. Is this a wrong assumption? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted February 19, 2004 Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 If you want 'stable' the 9.1 is the way to go. They seem to have finished issuing everything except security patches. 9.2 is getting pretty stable I guess, I havn't really tried it. 10.anything is strictly bug testing ... As is noted every 6 months, the RC is some sort of bad joke for release candidate.... in theory it get stabler but they also try and iron out anything that they don't think they can fix in time and rollback to older versions, often with well the results you got. Unless you think you need something specific in 10.x then its best to wait if you expect it to run without a lot of hacking!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knowfear Posted February 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 Damn, not the answer I was looking for. I want to be bleeding edge but I don't want to be doing the bleeding. eh, such is life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 Well you can mix and match a bit.... If you install say 9.2 and add the contribs sources you can still try the latest bleeding edge apps ..... Unless you need the 2.6 kernel specifically then you aren't gaining much and making your learning of mandrake a lot tougher. Do a search on easyurpmi for a start. ....(all one word) its chellenging enough someties for seasoned mandrakers ..... (p.s. it just worked fine on mine but .. thats life, I have 2 other macines I would lay money i get similar probs to you.... ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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