Guest buzzz Posted April 18, 2007 Report Share Posted April 18, 2007 Just installed 2007.1 from boot.iso. I have to say it really is working superbly. [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 18, 2007 Report Share Posted April 18, 2007 Glad to hear it ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfitpierce Posted April 18, 2007 Report Share Posted April 18, 2007 Same here and also glad to hear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gayle Posted April 18, 2007 Report Share Posted April 18, 2007 I also did the boot.iso install and am very pleased with 2007.1! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 I downloaded the beta of Corporate Desktop 4 which is based on 2007.1 and uses the same sources. Looks pretty damn slick and cool. Installation very quick also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbuckley2004 Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Has anyone using wireless broadband installed 2007.1 One yet? I'm curious to know (before I try it) if they've included ndiswrapper on the live version, so that I can use my Atheros card to get the full install. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfitpierce Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Yes NDISWrapper is included I setup my broadcom wireless card on laptop with it and it worked without a hitch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaraeez Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 I 2nd that ndiswrapper is included & all I needed to do while in live mode was mount my USB with the win drivers on it. Then in MCC direct it to the drivers on the USB & a couple of clicks later we have connectivity - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 (edited) I had a partition with 2006 installed that I thought I'd try doing an upgrade directly to 2007.1 using the install DVD. Worked great. No install problems. Everything came up fine. I am very impressed with 2007.1. There was no separate /home partition - /home was part of the root partition. As far as I can tell, all my stuff in /home was preserved (files, firefox config, bookmarks, etc). I had some multimedia plf packages installed on 2006 and they were left intact. So I configured the plf sources for 2007.1 and installed the plf updates via urpmi. I was concerned whether video in Yahoo News, CNN, etc would work ok, and it did work fine. After I configured all the urpmi sources, an update (from all sources, not just the update sources) installed a bunch of new packages - around 150! Are there that many new packages since the iso got created? I got the iso yesterday from the psu.edu site. (EDIT: Oops. Some of those updates were plf packages, maybe about 20, but it still seems like a lot of packages that are either updates or weren't installed via the DVD). Now I need to check the .rpmnew config files against the original config files that were left in place. Machine has an Athlon 2500 CPU, 2 gb DDR 400 memory, ATI 9200 video, and 2 SATA/150 drives. The 2 gb RAM was detected ok using the default kernel. An external eSATA drive is also detected ok. Plugging in a USB pen drive results in a KDE Daemon dialog box popping up with default choices and the flash drive mounted to /media/disk - very nice! I think I'm gonna really like this new 2007.1 distro. Another fresh install on a different machine went uneventfully also. EDIT: Also, there were left some old directories from 2006 that are no longer used, so I went ahead and deleted them. For example: /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.0.6 /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.0.7 I also checked for any remaining RPMs that had 2006 in the name, and deleted them after checking that it would cause no dependency problems. Edited April 19, 2007 by jboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 My install was very smooth also. I've had problems in the past with the install complaining it couldn't find packages but that didn't happen this time. I had to enlarge my partitions and as usual DiskDrake did a great job of it. I still have to do my upgrades but will do that today. One thing I have to do is install nano. For a distro that is supposed to be user friendly I don't understand why the default is vi. Even though I know how to use I still prefer nano. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Yes, nano missing in Mandriva default installations is a bit annoying but luckily easy to fix. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Just installed 2007.1 One. So far so good, I like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 I just did my upgrades and had more bad signature errors than I can count. Anybody else have this problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 I just did my upgrades and had more bad signature errors than I can count. Anybody else have this problem?That's been a recurring problem for Mandriva. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 I just did my upgrades and had more bad signature errors than I can count. Anybody else have this problem? Yes, I had a couple of errors too while tried to install mplayer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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