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Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 8 Mar 2000 05:31:57 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.=nomorespam=org
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Dan Boger <dan@giccs.georgetown.edu> wrote:
> not sure yet (only tried it today, after burning a CD at work), and the
> first thing I get asked after the bootloader is "please insert your driver
> disk". It doesn't matter which mode I choose (graphical, text, or expert),
> it doesn't say what driver it's looking for... oddly enough, RH6.0
> installed with no problem at all... And I didn't think any drivers were
> _removed_ from the installation...
I think that they have in fact removed a few things from the 6.1 installl
disk (it's a pretty tight squeeze), but it shouldn't have been anything
remotely mainstream.
In my (humble, of course) opinion, the 6.1/6.2 installer is terribly broken.
I've decided to base the install for the BU Linux distro on RH's 6.0
installer instead of the new one.
The thing is, the 6.1/6.2 installer is totally rewritten from scratch in
python. I found out _why_ as I started delving in to adapting the older
installer for our needs -- the 6.0 install program seems to have been
written by a bunch of monkeys on crack. That's not quite fair, but really,
it's very messy and full of dirty hacks and kludges, with a lot of features
(notably, kickstart) shoehorned in afterwards. The 6.1 installer is an
attempt to do things right. Unfortunately, while the 6.0 version (for all its
internal flaws) is very robust and works reliably (almost) every time, the
6.1 installer dies if you sneeze, giving you 14 pages of python traceback.
> Am I missing something? Did I burn the CD wrong? (I don't think so, since it
> didn't even ask me where am I installing from)
Possible. I always do network installs, so I'm not sure of all the possible
CD-install pitfalls. Did it say which driver it's looking for? (Try looking
on the other virtual consoles...)
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| (...) yah, that fits my experience with their install - you say that the 6.2 isn't any better? I havn't tried it yet... (...) nod - I ran into that trying to upgrade 6.0 to 6.1 in place, and failing misrably... ended up going a full install. (yay (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Another request to LDlite programmers...
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| (...) not sure yet (only tried it today, after burning a CD at work), and the first thing I get asked after the bootloader is "please insert your driver disk". It doesn't matter which mode I choose (graphical, text, or expert), it doesn't say what (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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