2005LE came this close!
 

New to 2005LE from MDK 10.

now trying 2005LE and cannot get it to recognize lexar pendrive( nothing in fstab, dmesg,lsmod,grep). It will recognize jetway pendrive. MDK 10 sees both.
Also, destroyed KDE with menu editor immediately after install several days ago. Google confirms problems with this.

Also cannot find Koffice anywhere in software mgr OR manually looking thru discs!

Anyway, no problems with printers in MDK 10.
Here was my experience with 2005LE this evening.

Hookup my Canon BJ100 ( works fine in MDK 10)
MCC>hdwr>printers>no printer autodetected
Config>KDE>peripherals>printers> could not connect to serrver.
Spend 10 minutes trying to configure CUPs, Passwords, etc.........
For a noob there is no message indicating why cannot connect to CUPS
Previous experience with MDK is CUPS is always installed so don't pursue this
Go back to MCC - try to auto detect - no luck
Back to KDE printer config - no go
Finally out of curiosity go to system services - I don't see CUPS
Being noob, don't know if CUPS SHOULD be there or not
Just in case, restart and look for CUPS in startup dialogue - nothing
back to MCC to check for software installed
CUPS is in the installable menu, which might or might not mean it's already installed
Go to installed and removeable menu - CUPS not there, so go back to installable
Yes, CUPS is there, which I have now deduced means that CUPS was never installed
THis is very vague and confusing for noobs
There are 4-6 CUPS packages with NO indication for a noob which to use
Try to install CUPS - bad packages, bad signatures
Try installing every combo of CUPS - no luck

ONLY BY RANDOM LUCK do I remember something about having used MDV update yesterday and maybe the CUPS packages are interfering with each other cause this happened about 2 weeks ago (destroyed the OS with dozens of perl packages from 2 different Dansguardian pckgs comingled)

Also, by sheer luck remembered something about unchecking the package sources in software mgr if you DON"T want it to read from that selection.
THIS IS ALSO VERY NON INTUITIVE FOR ME
Unchecked the 'media' repository
back to install CUPS - this time worked
back to MCC>hdwr>printers - no printer detected
Did this three times, checked cables
Just on a lark, UNCHECKED the auto detect printer - viola!
BJ100 working

This was done in MDK 10 in 43 seconds (checked my log)

What I have just related took 2 hours of my time.

1. Should EASY URPMI or Mandrivaonline install upgrade packages that conflict with what's on CDs?
2. How would a noob know this?
3. Shouldn't CUPS be installed during install as it was in MDK 10?
4. Are these reportable bugs?

Anyone else had these experiences?
Unfotunately am not impressed with 2005LE so far (this is official version)
Came this --> || <-- close to removing it today, but will continue for the weekend.


Thanks

I found mandriva 2005LE very easy to install. You seem to have managed to get into a big mess, and I suggest you just start again:

Plug in and turn on all your peripherals (including dsl modem, routers, any networked computers), boot from the disk and install.
Now, before you do anything else, configure easy urpmi from an easy urpmi site. Make sure you select the PLF sources if you want to play WMVs, MP3s, DVDs etc.
Then execute:
urpmi --update --auto-select
To get the upadates & fixes (there are lots).

Mandriva installed cups and connected to my printer on another machine (nice!).
Mandriva sorted out my internet connection (nice!).
Openoffice was installed (nice!).
If you have an NVIDIA card, check your kernel source still matches your running kernel after all those updates, then install the NVIDIA drivers.
Now you can configure mandriva to your liking. I like this distro.

HTH