a word of caution about Mandrake 8.1

[CalHerrmann]

I installed Mandrake 8.1 recently, no trouble.  I like the inclusion 
of both KDE & Gnome.  Lucky, I guess.
Cal Herrmann

>thinking of getting that geek in your life a set of mandrake 8.1 cd's? think
>again...
>i recently got some mandrake 8.1 cd's and upon installing got an error about
>the kernel package having errors when it installed, and sure enough after i
>continued on and finished the install and rebooted it was failure city on my
>screen. i poked around a bit and it looked like a bunch of stuff didn't get
>compiled into the kernel nor did they get compiled as modules. one that comes
>to mind is support for the iso9660 file system. the good new though is after
>i reconfigured and recompiled the kernel everything is working great! thats
>my 2 cents and i hope this helps someone out there.
>
>--augie