The problem below with the IP address seems to have been fixed in the
RC1 release of Mandrake 8.1 :)
http://mt.mandrake.org/mcwn/2001/09/17/
Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
>> I downloaded Beta 3 of Mandrake 8.1 last week sometime and set aside
> some time last night to install it.
> Now's when the trouble started. I had setup my box with 192.168.0.20,
> but then discovered I had already allocated that IP address, so I
> changed it in linuxconf and restarted networking. No joy, it was still
> the same. I checked the /etc/sysconfig/ directory and that had changed.
> I went into single user mode and back to run level 5 but no luck. I had
> to reboot.
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