For the first time ever, I tried the "standard" install CD for the latest beta released a couple of days ago.
First of all, I like it a lot less than the more traditional one. It made me very nervous telling me about "preparing partions" during the automatic loading (I have three other OSs and I want to preserve them, thank you very much).
Fortunately that was OK.
Next uncool part was giving me a partition configuration screen and not being sure what I was supposed to do (I was expecting to be able to choose the mount points as well). Apparently not. I clicked continue, it asked me if I was sure, said NO, and continued anyway. Nice! Not...
Finally, the cake: It never asked anything about booting options. It silently went ahead, overwrote the boot sector and pointed it to its own boot location. It didn't even detect my other Linux configurations!
All in all, I'm extremely unimpressed with this new installation method. I would stick to the "regular" text-based one except that it doesn't work for me (read thread on mouse and network problems). I can't say I would recommend this distribution so far, even though Breezy was my biggest hope to replace Mandrake.
First of all, I like it a lot less than the more traditional one. It made me very nervous telling me about "preparing partions" during the automatic loading (I have three other OSs and I want to preserve them, thank you very much).
Fortunately that was OK.
Next uncool part was giving me a partition configuration screen and not being sure what I was supposed to do (I was expecting to be able to choose the mount points as well). Apparently not. I clicked continue, it asked me if I was sure, said NO, and continued anyway. Nice! Not...
Finally, the cake: It never asked anything about booting options. It silently went ahead, overwrote the boot sector and pointed it to its own boot location. It didn't even detect my other Linux configurations!
All in all, I'm extremely unimpressed with this new installation method. I would stick to the "regular" text-based one except that it doesn't work for me (read thread on mouse and network problems). I can't say I would recommend this distribution so far, even though Breezy was my biggest hope to replace Mandrake.
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