a word of caution about Mandrake 8.1

[schwer at sonic.net]

i am thinking now it may have just been a problem with the specific iso's i 
got, but i havn't been able to test this theory out yet. in either case i 
still like mandrake.

CalHerrmann <cal at herrmanns.org> said:

> I installed Mandrake 8.1 recently, no trouble.  I like the inclusion 
> of both KDE & Gnome.  Lucky, I guess.
> Cal Herrmann
> 
> >thinking of getting that geek in your life a set of mandrake 8.1 cd's? 
think
> >again...
> >i recently got some mandrake 8.1 cd's and upon installing got an error 
about
> >the kernel package having errors when it installed, and sure enough after i
> >continued on and finished the install and rebooted it was failure city on 
my
> >screen. i poked around a bit and it looked like a bunch of stuff didn't get
> >compiled into the kernel nor did they get compiled as modules. one that 
comes
> >to mind is support for the iso9660 file system. the good new though is 
after
> >i reconfigured and recompiled the kernel everything is working great! thats
> >my 2 cents and i hope this helps someone out there.
> >
> >--augie
> 



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