Re: 1.2 PreRelease avaliable

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 17:04 8-10-2002 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 16:41, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 18:15, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> > > ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/Release-1.2pre1/
> > > The installer iso is also available. I will install a system that looks
> > > and feels similar to a RedHat (tm) 8.0 system.
> > > This is probably going to be the only spin of the installer iso,
> > > as the amount of effort is not trivial.
> >
> > You're saying that the final 1.2 release will be the only spin, not the
> > 1.2pre, right? ;-)
>
> We'll see.  Even if the 1.2pre is the only version we release, it's not
> that horrible if you have to do a kernel upgrade to get to 1.2-final.

The only problem I have with the installer as it is now is the text mode 
install which barfs before I even get to any install screen.

I have not saved the dump yet though. I can reproduce it. The standard 8.0 
text mode works though. I'll send it later.

The first build I made with the 1.2pre1 kernel-source rpm on a 7.2 box 
hanged at bootup with "Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31"
And sometimes one line later. I will recompile this kernel from scratch and 
try again though. I don't think it is XFS related anyways.

> Installers are no fun, and the time can be better spent tracking down
> bugs.

The only X installs is a bit of problem on my notebook though since the 
installers (redhat and sgi) contain a bug that incorrectly sets the size of 
installer screen on my notebook.

Plus I have a few servers which don't have a mouse or a decent monitor 
which means I can't do a X install. Aargh...

Just a request :-)

Cheers

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Seth
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