Sunday, May 12, 2002

Mandrake 8.2 is now installed and from just a preliminary run through I would say that it is improved over version 8.1. I have particularly noticed the speed improvements. Right now I don't have enough time to play more with the installation. 11:10:36 PM    [Macro error: Can't call the script because the name "liveTopicsSeeAlso" hasn't been defined.]

I found a round tuit today and got around to installing Mandrake 8.2. At first I tried to upgrade my existing installation, but that did not go well. On the first boot the boot loader complained about hdb, and nothing that I could do got Mandrake loaded. It kept wanting to drop me into command line mode to let me fix things, but I didn't have the foggiest idea how to do that. It's not like Linux has a simple format command. So, I decided to start all over and right now I am doing a fresh install of Mandrake Linux 8.2. Along the way I formatted the disks such that hda contains root and swap and hdb contains home. We'll see if the second time is the charm for this thing. 8:31:25 PM    [Macro error: Can't call the script because the name "liveTopicsSeeAlso" hasn't been defined.]

Thanks to EMusic, I have discovered Liona Boyd. 2:13:49 PM    [Macro error: Can't call the script because the name "liveTopicsSeeAlso" hasn't been defined.]