mandrake

[Gene Dascher]

Mandrake 8.2 is in beta, according to an article on slashdot.  Apparently,
you'll be able to install it as small as 65MB!  I like Mandrake, except for
one problem that I keep having.  I have installed 8.0 and 8.1 on a Dell
Inspiron laptop aith very few modifications.  The problem I seem to have is
that somehow, in the normal usage of the laptop (I have a dual-boot config
with Win98), it looses its ability to mount the /boot partition!  The laptop
boots just fine in Linux, but when it is mounting the different partitions,
it says it can't mount /dev/hda2 as /boot because the filesystem does not
exist.  I first used ReiserFS, and then switched to EXT3, but it still
happens.  I don't know if it is because I have SuspendToDisk enabled or
what, but I'm confused.  I think I will try the Gentoo or LinuxFromScratch
this time to try and streamline the system more.

Gene

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Jonathan Hutchins
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 5:24 PM
> To: Kclug
> Subject: RE: mandrake
>
>
> On top of the various problems, there hasn't been any significant
> update to
> 8.1 since it came out in September.
>
> Then again, RedHat is still running 7.2.
>
> How recent is the latest Debian?  SuSE?
>
>