Last week I installed Mandriva Spring edition. This week version 2008 was officially released. Yesterday I updated my system to 2008, but that left my computer in a bad shape. The new kernel paniced while trying to unpack the initrd. Very strange things.
In the end I decided to simply download the One cd and see if that one would run, asuming it has the same kernel. It did. When that cd was completely booted, I decided to go on the road with the least resistance and simply... reinstall. I made a mess of my system anyhow in the first hours as new Mandriva users, so that was more or less expected.

The installer is very clever in that respect, I told him to use existing partitions and the installer suggested to format the partition with / on it and to not format the partion with /home on it and mount it on those locations. Awesome.

Although I noticed that the installer does not check for enough space on / or give an error when the partion is full while installing. It simply exits.

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