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[Jonathan Evraire <evraire AT tuwg.com>]

Hi Eric,
  the problem I have isn't directly related to the ISO.  I'm going to try
and install Mandrake (help me Lord!!!) to see if I can then boot up
succesfully from the hard drive.  I can't be sure, but the more I think of
it, the more I suspect it has to do with a missing module, or something
I configured as a module that should've been part of the kernel.  I need a
working kernel config to compare to (so I can what's in it that's not in
mind), and since I can't grab the one off the ISO, Mandrake will have to
do! (Assuming I can boot up with it.)

  On the other, I wasn't sure what the best sequence of updates and
rebuilds were given all the changes which have been made to SourceMage, so
I'm glad to steal this list from you. :)  Thanks!

  Jonathan Evraire
  evraire at tuwg.com


On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Eric Sandall wrote:

> I don't know how people are having problems with the 2002-07-01 ISO
> (unless they try using XFS, then it doesn't work at all, anyways...) as I
> see this as our most stable release to date (besides the 2002-03-23 ISO
> ;)).  I've installed 7 systems with this ISO (some of them repeatedly), 3
> of which were withing this month.  All I did was the following:
>
> 1. Use the CD to boot and install SM (not using XFS)
> 2. Confirm the bootloader works and is setup correctly
> 3. Run 'sorcery' and select my options
> 4. Run 'sorcery update' (updates gcc and others)
> 5. Run 'sorcery rebuild' to recompile everything to use the new gcc 3.2
> and get rid of any non-optimized binaries from the ISO
> 6. Cast xfree86, WindowMaker, blackbox, and any other programs I want
> 7. I now have a working ISO
>
> As I said earlier, I've done this 3 times at work (P-233MMX, PII-300,
> PIII-550) and they're all running X now and chugging along happily.  :)
>
> BTW, I keep mentioned XFS won't work, that's so that you don't waste your
> time.  :)  I've tried it several times as I've been wanting to try XFS for
> a while, but whenever compiling the kernel through the install process, I
> get a "bfs" error when compiling, even though I haven't selected the BFS
> option in the kernel config.  Even if I select it I get the error, so I
> don't know what's wrong.
>
> -One of Four
> a.k.a. sandalle
>
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> eric AT sandall.us                   | http://www.sourcemage.org
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