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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 15:04:00 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller writes:
> 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.
yah, that fits my experience with their install - you say that the 6.2 isn't
any better? I havn't tried it yet...
> 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.
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 partitioning and NFS :)
> > 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)
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> 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...)
Good point, I should look at that... on VC1 it didn't say a thing, but I do
remember (now) that it spits out stuff on VCs 2-5.... I always do a network
install at work, but not at home, with a 28K modem. :P
Dan
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| (...) 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. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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