-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: | Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | [...] | | |>>bugged and doesn't report failures, or your floppy has an |>>hardware failure that didn't report to the floppy drive during |>>bootdisk creation but lead to a misread when you tried to boot |>>with it. I would favor the second option. |> |> |>Not likely on mine. 8.2 installed just fine, but beta 3, beta 4, RC1, & |>RC2 all did the same thing as above with me, except Beta 3 created |>several zero byte files on the floppy. No zero byte files on the three |>latter, but same error message when attempting boot as above. On all | | | Is the floppy full? What happens when you try to copy the | contents to the hd? And when you try to mount it? And when you | try to read the files on it? | | |>four 9.0 installs, installation boot was initiated from floppy, |>network.img on the first, and hd.img on the latter three. On RC1 I |>attempted mkbootdisk & drakfloppy after booting the HD, but got no |>improvement. I emailed cooker list about this Thu, 29 Aug 2002 00:29:20 |>-0400 & Tue, 03 Sep 2002 03:00:11 -0400 & Thu, 05 Sep 2002 21:32:33 |>-0400 and got no replies. | | | When no one answers on this list, it generally means that either: | | 1- the bug is likely to be invalid (happens when only one person | reports something which is unlikely to happen) | 2- the bug is considered non important, or we have more important | bugs pending | 3- the reporter doesn't report enough information | 4- the reporter writes 200 lines talking about his life, so no | one bothers wasting time to read | 5- it would need much investigation from the reporter and we | consider it would be a useless effort to try to initiate it | 6- we don't have the knowledge to fix it | 7- serveral people reported the same problem but the reports are | inconsistent with each other | 8- a similar problem has recently been fixed and the reporter | doesn't clearly specify the version of software with failure | | (of course, I may have forgotten other situations ;p) | | In this situation, I'd favor `2', but it's true that the problem | also needs investigation from the people involved. Also, a big | problem is that floppies are very likely to have hardware | failures. Many times with similar bugs we spent time trying to | investigate, just to see that it was only due to h/w failure, so | most of the times we don't bother. | |
You missed one: 9- It gets eaten my the mail list server and never shows up in anyone's mailboxes. I've seen a fair share in the archives that don't arrive in my mailbox, and others have been talking about the same in some other threads. I've had to resubmit a few that never got posted to the archives -- hopefully I'm not giving anyone duplicates. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEUEARECAAYFAj2ABekACgkQUMkt1ZRwL1P7QgCYqOuni4AIOwRVAu3lckfN67bX bQCfaTzPcEqFKGedW+iXSD8ApqxssJg= =1bUy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
