On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 07:29, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: > 1. The boot disk creation code doesn't create a bootable boot disk! This is both >from the > installer, and also from mkbootdisk. The floppy loads just about all the way, then >says it failed. > It never tries to access the hard disk. It did have the correct name for the root >partition. I > even tried this on the machine I had just installed on, and it failed booting from >the floppy. Note > that there are NO disk errors.
Interesting - I'll do mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.19-9mdk (9.0RC2 kernel) and see what happens; I've not (yet) had to use a bootdisk. > 2. Supermount, at least for the CDROM drive, fails with a "I/O Error" when I try to >look at > /mnt/cdrom. I can manually mount the CDrom fine. Let's just say that supermount sometimes fails to proceed; it is far from being the most reliable facility and there are a lot of issues about it on the [cooker] list. > 3. I could not locate the pine package anywhere on the disks. It's been removed because the University of Washington, its owners, introduced a homebrewed licence which is more restrictive than GPL or similar. (Mandrakesoft is _very_ strict on this issue). > 4. The ucd-snmp package wasn't in the servers list. Not relevant to me, so can't test. Alastair
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