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[Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

Hi
I've been using Sorcerer since November 2001 and have been using the 
same ISO from 2001. When the beta2 iso was release I tried to upgrade my 
system but had a number of issue.

To date I have I have managed to install SGML beta2 and rebuild it (with 
only 3 problems left)

Install problems: I tried to install XFS with the kernel, the kernel 
would be patched but the kernel compilation would fail at random places. 
At first I would remove the module that caused the compile problem but 
it would fail somewhere else. So in the end I compiled the kernel with 
the same configuration twice and found they failed at different places. 
Finally I found that if I didn't compile XFS I was fine. Now I'm using ext3.

Rebuild problems:
xfsprogs - can't find source version 2.2.2 - understandable, I couldn't 
either. Didn't need it since I couldn't install XFS in the kernel.
ncurse - I understand this has been discussed - I will look through the 
previous posts and fix it
bzip2 - not sure why, will look into it.

But my biggest problem, the one that annoys me and the only one I can't 
start using beta2, is installing xfree86. It has a problem compiling 
'mipmap.c'. I have searched the web for this issue, I have downloaded 
the xfree86 source again and I tried to compile it after my lastest 
rebuild, all with no luck. I did attempt to compile it using gcc2 but I 
don't know how to set xfree86 to be compiled with gcc2, can someone help 
me here? Unfortunately, I am unable to get the compile log to my working 
computer, I'll write down the error and post it if needed. I am really 
posting this to see if anyone else has had problems or if anyone could help.

I did reset my system setting in sorcery configuration after installing 
beta2.

Also just a question, are we able to get a xdelta patch between iso 
releases?, I have a 56k modem.

My system is: Asus P4S333-VM motherboard, P4 1.4GHz CPU, 750MB RAM, 80GB 
HD, Asus V8170 Graphics card.

Regards, Duane.