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Still a "thumbs up" from me on the PT 1 release. Hope it is working well for others as well.

I'm having a problem. Download appears to be ok...at least md5sum is correct. Tried two different burns and both CD's have the same problem.

LiveCD runs fine. When I start to install to hda with "auto-install using entire disk"...after "ok to format and use the entire disk..." I get to formatting swap partition and I get an error message saying, "Failed to create required partitions. Returning to Step 1". I've tried formatting with gpartition before hand and get the same result.

I just checked the hard drive by installing antiXM8 Base and it installed just fine. Any ideas?

Just tried it and it it worked ok.
Does custom install work?

No that didn't work either. I just can't help but think I got a bad download.

That is probably the reason.
Burn at slow speed as well.

I will try another download with the newly installed antiXM8 base....just in case this computer has a bad burner.

impuwatt, try using fromiso. It saves on cds and is much quicker once set up.

Thanks...checking it out now at http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Fromiso

Once you have it set up, it is a great way to test distros.

I've just run M8.2-pt1 and it's looking nice! Thanks!

However, just like M8, I'm having trouble with the sound on my Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. Last time, to get the sound working I had to manually install ALSA.

Is this something that can be fixed so that the sound works automatically, or is it something that is dependent upon the MEPIS kernel and therefore something that I'll have to live with?

Thanks also for the tip about the "fromiso" option. Booting from the CD is a real hassle on this laptop so that will save me a heap of trouble. In my case I:

1. Copied initrd.gz from the M8 CD to the /boot directory.

2. Added the following entries to menu.lst

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title antiX ISO at hda1
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz nomce quiet splash vga=788 fromiso=/user/iso/antiX-M8.2-pt1.iso
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.gz
boot

It worked. Is it a reasonable way to do it?

Any more bugs?
I found a few and have fixed them.

Could people provide feedback about the following in particular.

1. printing
2. usb sticks/drives
3. usb devices ie mouse, cameras, phones etc
4. mounting windows drives, ntfs
5. samba/ssh/fuse file sharing
6. internet connection from wireless to dial-up

Just to remember you that the MEPIS tools localization for Portuguese-Brazil is not included yet (don't forget to include before the final release).