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John Allen wrote:
> On Friday 17 October 2003 12:17, Buchan Milne wrote:
>>>This is a very basic and essential requirement which should not be in
>>>any way hidden.
>>
>>Haven't made a boot floppy (besides to install from) myself in over 2
>>years.
Oh, I forgot to mention, my desktop at home had it's floppy drive die
(well, it got a dry solder joint). I fixed it, but I haven't bothered to
put it back.
Many new machines now come without floppy disks.
> Yes; usually use the CD myself. But none the less this is really not
> acceptable. 9.2 has too many stupid problems, from no screensavers in
KDE,
Mine work. Isn't this just a symptom of the rpm/update-menus issue?
> broken urpmi
Actually, I need to file another bug on urpmi, I think --distrib isn't
working (even for a CD medium).
> and now this. The list is just growing day by day.
That's natural.
BTW, the reason for the bootdisk not working is quite apparent, but I
don't know if there is any easy way to fix it:
# ll /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2{1-0.{13,18},2-9}mdk
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1252778 Mar 14 2003
/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1261861 Jun 4 21:29
/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.18mdk
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1346493 Sep 13 07:07
/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-9mdk
I am quite sure it affected 9.1 also in some configurations (like xfs on
root), due to a large initrd image.
IMHO, we shouldn't ever need a boot floppy after installation (if so,
there are more serious bugs to fix).
Of course, it would be nice to have it working by default, but Ron
always goes overboard on his small niggles in the first two weeks of a
release (he could have tested this in the beta series of course ...).
Regards,
Buchan
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