"Venables, Michael" wrote:
> 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.
Ok will do, I'm remaking everything right now with a patched version of
mkinitrd.
Your best bet will be to use rysnc to "update" your disc1 iso, should very
little change
from the original.
>
>
> 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.
Ok like I said I don't have bunched time right now, so...
I'll do one kernel, which one is more important right now?
2.4.3.whatever or the latest 2.4.4 in cooker.
Note any 2.4.4 version will most likely be TOT from the development tree, as
that is very close to what will be going into XFS 1.0.1.
>
>
> 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
>
> --
> Russell Cattelan
> --
> Digital Elves inc. -- Currently on loan to SGI
> Linux XFS core developer.
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Russell Cattelan
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Digital Elves inc. -- Currently on loan to SGI
Linux XFS core developer.
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