Looks like Mandrake is in trouble too

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

At 10:22 AM 3/13/02 -0500, Lee wrote:
> >>Hope they do well with 8.2. I've been using 8.0 since the Caldera Wars and
>have installed Mandrake 8.2 Betya 3 on hdb - and then promply uninstalled it
>after it locked up and blasted my MBR on hdaI, even it was instructed to
>install the boot on hdb. It also suffers from the same problems that it
>shares with 8.1, namely there is no way to access the floppy or cdrom drives
>from the desktop icons. Get either a "a no ltsdir" or "device is already
>mounted" (which it isn't) or my favorite " no such file (/dev/floppy,
>/mnt/floppy, /dev/cdrom, /mnt cdrom). I'm a member of the Mandrake Club and
>have asked the company why and how to set the devices up, no answer. I guess
>Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 are like a French Renault - it either runs or it doesn't
>and no one why knows why it does either. On the bright side it did find the
>parallel port Zip drive and set it up doing install.
>
>Lee

The problem with the icons is apparently a known issue.  I don't remember 
if I saw that on their site or in an addendum to the printed documentation 
though.

On my system (8.1), I find that though you can't open them from the icons, 
"mount" (and on the CD-ROM, "eject") from the associated right-click menu 
does.  It would be nice, and I don't remember if this was a feature of 
Caldera or an older version of Mandrake, if the icons would indicate when 
the devices were mounted.

I've noticed that problem with Mandrake's otherwise nice installer, too--it 
REALLY likes to put the boot loader on the MBR.  In 7.0, on a system that 
wouldn't do the graphical install, I found there was no option available.



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