Public SourceMage Discussion List

[Ryan Abrams <rabrams AT sourcemage.org>]

I just want to point out that Adam Clark has actually put his crypto 
section aside to focus exclusively on the creation of a new, from 
scratch iso for 1.0. Adam has definately proven his ISO creation 
ability.

so hopefully the ISO will get:

a) better
b) faster
c) smaller
d) stabler
e) easier

I know Adam has my support with anything he needs to get the job done. 
I hope most of you can offer the same, as it /is/ a priority.

-Ryan

On Saturday, September 14, 2002, at 10:18  PM, Jason Flatt wrote:

> On Saturday 14 September 2002 09:52 am, 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
>
>
> I will have to agree that the 20020701 is one of the more stable and 
> better
> ISOs, and I will admit that for the most part (I had the same problem 
> w/XFS,
> but only tried once) it installs cleanly and fairly painlessly.  I 
> have setup
> 6 different partitions w/Source Mage, and all seem to be functioning
> properly.
>
> Where I have my problems, are doing the sorcery update.  Especially 
> when major
> things are shifting.  I haven't been able to keep up w/wat's going on, 
> so I
> missed out on what to do when things don't work.
>
> Fortunately I'm mostly back up and in operation, and I should be able 
> to
> resume my normal section maintenance duties soon (just as soon as I 
> figure
> out why my mouse doesn't work).
>
>
> --
> Jason Flatt
> Section maintainer for printer
> E-mail (remove the spaces): jflatt @ sourcemage . org
> E-mail (remove the spaces): jasonflatt @ wizard . com
> IRC: Oadae
>
> _______________________________________________
> SM-Discuss mailing list
> SM-Discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/sm-discuss