Ben Reser wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 12:07:36AM +1000, Ron Stodden wrote: > >>What's worse X will now not come up in either of the two machines here. >> It did on one of them (TNT2 32MB), not the other (Voodoo 3), for 9.0rc3. > > > That's a really useful report. You really aren't clear what hardware is > in what machines. What error messages you are getting etc..
These have been well reported before in the rc context. >>This is a real disaster - stay away from 9.0. As it stands it is a >>waste of everyone's time. This is a pity, since there is no fallback >>to rc3 or 8.2 because they are no lomger on the mirrors, and for those >>who need iDE2 and IDE3 for ATA 100+, the 8.2 kernel does not support them. > > > Why do you always feel the need to spew incorrect information? I could ask you the same. My information on this list is accurate and well checked out. > mirrors > are choosing not to carry 8.2 and older. Mandrake however does still > put these up. Untrue. "Why do you always feel the need to spew incorrect information?" You have plainly not checked out your information before posting. Here is the primary mirror: [ron@small rsync]$ rsync rsync://ftp.uninett.no:873/Mandrake/ drwxr-xr-x 4096 2001/11/04 07:36:22 . drwxr-xr-x 4096 2002/09/26 03:29:03 Mandrake drwxr-xr-x 4096 2002/04/16 00:11:05 Mandrake-devel drwxr-xr-x 4096 2001/06/11 21:59:48 Mandrake-iso [ron@small rsync]$ rsync rsync://ftp.uninett.no:873/Mandrake/Mandrake/ drwxr-xr-x 4096 2002/09/26 03:29:03 . drwxr-xr-x 4096 2002/09/26 00:51:36 9.0 lrwxr-xr-x 3 2002/09/26 07:26:13 current drwxr-xr-x 4096 2002/09/26 02:13:52 iso -rw-r--r-- 144860 2002/09/25 22:00:02 ls-lR.gz drwxr-sr-x 4096 2002/08/02 00:58:58 updates [ron@small rsync]$ > They are in the Mandrake-old tree and everything back to > 7.2 is in that tree. carroll.cac.psu.edu carries Mandrake-old as do a > number of other sites. Do a search for Mandrake-old on google. > > I have no idea what you mean about ATA 100+ drives. I've got an 8.1 box > with an ATA 133 drive in it. Granted the box is running the 8.2 kernel. > But if that's the case then 8.2 should work fine for those people. Try and install 8.2 on a system with no hard drives on IDE0 and IDE1. I'm not talking about ATA level as a problem. Many motherboards do not support beyond ATA66 on IDE0 and IDE1. The non-support of IDE2 and IDE3 in the 8.2 installer was my subject. -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] New Web site: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/
