Installation:
Corel booted from the CD and started the graphical installation.
There were two installation options: Standard Desktop and Advanced Installation Options. I chose Standard Desktop.
One thing that I noticed about the installation was that there was an option to install Corel in a DOS/Windows Partition. I haven’t seen this in any other distributions.
The partitioning is reasonably easy – as long as you know what you’re doing.
There is an option of choosing packages to install but I just let it install the default.
Corel then restarted to system to allow the system to boot normally. This was when I noticed a MAJOR problem. Corel hadn’t installed a boot manager! Thankfully I had had another distribution in its place previously and my old boot manager was able to boot it.
Booting Up:
On boot up I noticed that Corel supported USB and Advanced Power Management and that it had detected my Network Card (A Realtek 8139a) and Graphics Card (A Creative Riva TNT2 Ultra).
Corel then started the Graphical Login and I found ANOTHER MAJOR PROBLEM. Corel hadn’t asked me to setup the X-Server and had selected the maximum resolution that the Graphics Card was capable of. However, my monitor (A Panasonic PanaSync C-1381) was not capable of displaying it! I could find no obvious way of changing the X Configuration so I gave up.
Software Content:
I was not able to review the software content because I was not able to use the X-Server that Corel had set up.
My Thoughts:
I am not impressed. I have seen it working on another system so why is my system so different? Every other distribution that I’ve ever tried has worked with no (major) problems. Maybe this was because I used the standard installation options instead of the advanced options – but this should make no difference.
I think that Corel need to make some improvements…
