On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 00:58 +0530, Rony Bill wrote:
Hello All,
The PCQ Linux 2006 writeup in the mag was quite impressive so I tried it out. First of all, the CD media is terrible, it has many file errors. First time, in CD1 itself it had some file errors. On inserting CD2, it simply went into CLI and said the system was ready to reboot. Next time it was another 'dhakka maro' session of opening and closing the cd (Sony DVD) tray but it finally installed.
CD copies that came with my subscription are fine. You can contact their customer support for a fresh copy. They are pretty good about such things.
I installed the extra-lite version only and did not encounter any probs during installation. Spot tested the "xtra-lite" apps and they seemed to be working fine.
Nevertheless, I agree about hardware detection. It did not recognize the well supported SB Live! 5.1 card in my system nor did it recognize the embedded AC'97 compatible sound - SuSE 10.0/FC4 does recognize them.
I plan to install to other configs over the next few days and see how they stack up.