OK, let's try this again. !!!RANTS DO NO GOOD!!!
Patches are fine. Suggestions are welcome, although it's more than a little bit late for them. Rants do no one any good, and get short-tempered replies like this one is shaping up to be. The lack of documentation is a result of no one having time to write any! There is no 'zip driver for the installer', it's using the kernel disk driver. Check linuxppc-dev. And please get a mail client that wraps lines at some sane length? On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:15:00PM -0500, Aaron Davies wrote: > I've gotten over hurdle mentioned in my last (almost ingnored) help > request by copying the install data files to a ZIP disk. This, > incidentally, is the kind of thing that needs to be on the powermac > install page in big red text with a lot of <blink> tags: RESCUE DISK > CANNOT READ HFS+! Also, is anyone planning on updating the file links > anytime soon? Once I finally figured out how to point the installer > to rescue.bin, it told me I was missing drivers.tgz. I'm currently > downloading that file (from a link I had to ask someone for because > all the posted ones were dead), but I'm probably going to have to > come back for more. Is the lack of documentation a result of an > expectation that everyone has LAN hookups and can d/l all the files > directly from the installer? If so, wake up and smell the coffee. > Even comp. eng. students like me use modems in the summer! Oh, and > the install process needs better error recovery. Do you know how > annoying it is to try several different directories ! and have to do > the entire kernel install process everytime, picking the volume and > everything? When it fails to find a file, it should display an error > message and return to the exact same dialog it was at when you hit > OK, *not* return the main install menu. One more thing, I get some > error about cylinders or tracks when accessing my IDE ZIP too, sounds > like what someone else described with a floppy. It continues fine, > but you might want to pass that on to whoever wrote the zip drive for > the installer. </rant> > -- > __ __ > / ) / ) > /--/ __. __ ________ / / __. , __o _ _ > / (_(_/|_/ (_(_) / / <_ /__/_(_/|_\/ <__</_/_)_ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
