On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:36:42PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:02:00AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > > At a BALUG meeting last spring I heard a talk by mondo's inceptor, Hugo > > Rabson, who took some special time to trash Debian. His beef is with > > Debian's initrd-enabled kernels which mondo either doesn't handle at all > > or doesn't handle well. If you have problems, I'd try building & > > installing a kernel with initrd disabled and see if it helps. > > I wanted to go to that meeting (but was out of town) and ask about > Debian support. I wanted to ask what the specific issues were. I had > problems with Mondo and on the list there were comments that Debian was > the problem, even though I had built my kernel from kernel.org source. > > Plus, http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/docs/1.6x-howto/kernelsupport.html > says: > > Your kernel must have: > > * initrd ramdisk support (built-in) > > So it's confusing. > > I also asked (also with conflicting suggestions from the Mondo list) > what exactly was "Virtual memory file system support (built-in)". I was > told[1] That I needed cramfs, but the docs say that I don't want cramfs. > > I wish that page listed the actual kernel parameter required. > > > See the Mondo website, http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo > > They have an active mailing list. Not only do they claim to support > > Debian 3.0, I just checked out their website and found that the text > > that used to say something like "Why I hate Debian" has been replaced > > with a blurb that starts out "I used to badmouth Debian's distro ... > > However, recent releases are much improved ..." Thanks, Hugo, that > > really makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. > > ;) > > So have you given it a try lately, Paul? >
I'm running debian stock kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 . I get error abort when mondoarchive attempts to create the .iso. Its error message says mkisofs is broken, which I sincerely doubt, but maybe some feature that I have never needed before, and is required by mondo, is broken. Maybe. > > > [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2573399&forum_id=5086 > > -- > Bill Moseley > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]