Russell -
Some of this is aimed more at the MDK guys, but since you CCed them, they'll
pick up the thread.
If it's not too much of a hassle, you might put discs 2 & 3 up. The copy of
disc 2 I have came from one of our internal ftp sites, and there seems to be
something wrong a bunch of the packages on it. I haven't seen disc 3 on any
of the sites I've visited.
Have you given any thought to building against the 2.4.4 kernel? From what
I've been told by one of our kernel hackers, it holds up much better on the
sort of meatgrinder tests that we'd like to stress test XFS under.
I've never had to do anything from the installer shell for Mandrake, and I
was sort of surprised that they use something other than bash. Didn't take
the time to look, but whatever it is, works hard against you doing any sort
of useful CLI work. Unlike RH, there's no mouse support or autofill.
Additionally, I was completely unable to run mkinitrd. The permissions are
fine, but for some reason, it won't execute. If you've got any theories...
More X config problems. Have a machine with a FireGL 4000. That card does
not appear in the list of supported video controllers. Also... is there no
option to function test an X configuration?
-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Cattelan [mailto:cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 4:04 PM
To: Venables, Michael; lcooker@xxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Mandrake installer
"Venables, Michael" wrote:
> I passed XFS Mandrake off to a couple of people here and happened to be
> around when they hit the same package install problems I did. The specific
> error was "bad package, unable to be installed" but I noticed that they
> begin on disk 2--so you're off the hook. Figured you'd want to know before
> you wasted any time.
>
Ok quick caveat here, I have not spend a lot of time making sure everything
is perfectly polished
So I'm nor sure the iso build script did the right thing in regards to which
package is on which
CD. I think the original mandrake 8.0 disc 2 and 3 should work when
selecting
packages from
them, but I have not tested that so I'm not sure.
If need be I can put the disc 2 and 3 iso's that I generated on the ftp
site.
I'm hoping the Mandrake folks will eventually help out with cleaning up
these
details,
but for the moment all I have to time to do is make sure the basic install
works.
BTW yes the mkinitrd is failing... seems it is trying to be smart and
include
any
file systems that are not ext2 as a module.
Since xfs is compiled into the kernel mkinitrd can not find the module and
exits.
The Q&D fix is to go in and comment out the exit at line 100 in mkinitrd and
rerun the cmd by hand.
> michael
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Russell Cattelan
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Linux XFS core developer.
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