Oh no! I liked it this "welcome"... Hmm.. I will install it myself...

no i meant to one in the kernel, not the lilo screen.. but...

ok, updated lilo and the layout of the files has changed about and no i get a really mesy text boot menu thing instead, and i don't know really what to change by lilo.conf to to get something not covered in ascii junk... if anyone has installed it from scratch, could i get a copy of your lilo.conf, cheers.

Also there's a Bootsplash package too, which is a package for making your own lilo boot screens from jpgs, which is quite nice, even thought the two that come with it are hideous...

hmm, and another thing, the kernel "quiet" flag set in lilo.conf get's used too much, and mandrake made it supress all the outputs from each thingy in the init.d files. so there's bugger all feedback... ahh well, just get rid of quiet.

hmm it seems to have more problems than the 8.2b1...

my usb optical mouse will not respond on a warm boot about half the time.
the root login warning message will not go away the next time after i unchecked it.
my icons would constantly be moved down, and not in saved positions.
i could not log in to my default user, i'd just be sent back to the login screen.
the mandrake software manager will fail to load often, so it renders the luxury ease of use quite worthless.
the terminal fux0rs, it says everything is an invalid command.
solutions would become rebooting a slow os, over and over. even disabling some services didn't improve the boot speed much.

i really wanted an alternative to win2k, but i guess why switch when everything is fine already. i don't think i could leave office, adobe, all my games, and the greater library of p2p software..... ever.
my original interest in linux was due to a faulty mobo that i thought was win2k's problem. it'd cause a random reboot every 5 min to 6-8 hrs.

Sounds like you want Gentoo, check it out at www.gentoo.org its worth a try.

Is anyone available to burn me a copie of Mandrake 8.1, I'll send you a handful of cd-rw in payment ?

htere are plenty of sites that do this for yuo, have a search

cos u r all talking baout d/l the 8.2 in 2 and 3 hours only
but me
poor me
i am online using dial up modem
and i am d/l the 8.2 first cd in 40 hours
and i have 2 others friend doing the same with the other 2 cds
i think we need a prize for our effort

the reason I am "buying''' 8.2 is it is only $5.95 for the 3 cd's at linux central. on a slow dial up I want to be able to use all the speed and bandwidth I can get just to surf.

I d/l and installed the 8.2............................................................maybe it is just me, but I seem to like 8.1 a little more.

For instance I went to terminal and tried to "hdparm -t /dev/hda" to see how fast I was pulling info from the HD.....................got an unknown command error. Same thing that I got when I tried it in RH7.2

Any ideas????

i think that 8.2 has more decent stuff on it, i think that the 3rd cd basically has more appealing junk than 8.1 did. as for hdparm, well that's definitely on there, it's ALWAYS there, not the kinda thing you'd not put in a distro. check it's installed and on your path

umm try
/sbin/hdparm