Ric Tibbetts wrote:
Just a side note here so people don't get the wrong impression
Mandrake and XFS get along just fine.
I have been running Mandrake (mainly cooker snapshots) on all my XFS development
machines and my workstation for well over a year, and while it has had it's
hiccup's
it has been no more or less than our RH systems.
The main reason I use Mandrake over Red Hat it the fact that they
compile for i586 rather than i386 and they usually are more up-to-date
on many packages.
This is just personal experience; I'm not trying to change anybody mind
about which distribution to use, I just want make sure people don't get
the wrong impression about Mandrake + XFS.
> I've surrendered the Mandrake battle. 3 days of it was enough. The box
> now has Redhat 7.1 on it (again), and all is working well.
>
> Mandrake 'Looks" nice out of the box, but it's way to brittle. 3 days of
> battles jsut trying to get XFS on it is over the top.
>
> I'd still like to make it work, but "work" is what it was. And it's not
> necessary, since I can do it with Redhat in less time and far less
> trouble.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Ric
>
> Seth Mos wrote:
> >
> > At 09:45 28-4-2001 -0700, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> > >Keith Owens wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 22:40:14 -0700,
> > > > Ric Tibbetts <ric@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >There isn't even an e2fsprogs-devel package available for intel. At
> > > > >least not that's included on the CDs.
> > > > >A check at rpmfind turns up several of them, from lots of
> > > > >distributions,
> > > > >but not Mandrake. At least not at the correct revision level, and
> > > > >platform.
> > > > >I did manage to find one that looked close. So I grabbed it.
> > > > >The result of installing it via:
> > > > >
> > > > >> rpm -ivh e2fsprogs-devel-1.19-1.i586.rpm
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 22:42:15 -0700,
> > > > Ric Tibbetts <ric@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >Ok... the build just died on:
> > > > >
> > > > >gcc: /usr/lib/libuuid.a: No such file or directory
> > > > >make[1]: *** [xfs_db] Error 1
> > > > >make: *** [default] Error 2
> > > > >
> > > > >So we're back to the uuid problem. Any thoughts?
> > > >
> > > > Do not install binary rpms from other distributions. Get the ext2
> > > > source rpm for mandrake then build from source. Remove all the
> > > > existing ext2 packages and install from your just compiled binary rpms.
> > > > There is no point in guessing what some other distribution has done for
> > > > uuid.
> > >
> > ><grin>
> > >did that, and this problem went away. It was just a matter of figuring
> > >out what package Mandrake hid it in. With that done, and the proper
> > >package installed, everything build fine.
> > >So that part is cured. THANK YOU to everyone who responded.
> > >
> > >Now if I can just fingure out the console problem... :(
> > >
> > >(the line you're typing on "at the console" flickers & dissapears...
> > >Really strange. Makes it impossible to use.).
> > >
> > >Any thoughts on that one?
> >
> > I now that that console in general uses readline.
> > What shell are you using?
> > What videocard?
> > Any special compile options, framebuffer support, videomode selection.
> >
> > It's a bit harder to find out what's wrong.
> >
> > --
> > Seth
> > Every program has two purposes
> > one for which it was written and
> > another for which it wasn't
> > I make the last kind.
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Russell Cattelan
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