On Sat Feb 08, 2003 at 02:07:40AM -0600, Vox wrote: > > Agreed. It's pretty solid. I did manage to hang my cooker box once or > > twice, but hey, it's cooker. I expect this sort of stuff > > occassionally. > > I locked my cooker box tonight...after 60 days of uptime (power went > out, no UPS...lost around 30 or 40 days on that)...finally decided > to move stuff to the second 120gig HD I got...for some reason, > diskdrake didn't like the hdh disk...it didn't complain about hdg > (exactly the same model)...I fdisk/mkfs'ed hdh by hand and it > worked...but diskdrake ate my X...which tends to lock kboard and > mouse when you run the nvidia drivers...so hard reboot :( But...it's > my first lockup since I moved to cooker circa 8.2b1
It was strange. I was copying an ISO from one partition to another (two separate drives) and it hung. Tried it again later, and moved 3 ISOs in succession without a burp. Very odd. I usually find cooker to be quite stable, but I tend to go this cycle: install release version, wait until after cooker has settled down (gcc/glibc upgrades), track cooker during the beta period, do a fresh install when the release is out. I have to have a semi-stable system, and don't sync with cooker daily... so I tend to take this route. Upgrades are really simple even with a fresh install. Soon I'll be setting up CVS so I can commit the entire /etc directory to CVS then on an upgrade I can do stuff like "cvs co" or "cvs diff" to find the differences. Should be an interesting project. > > Yup. I would be Win-free, except for EverQuest. I hear it's coming out for > > the Mac soon, which would be great, except the Mac version won't be able to > > interact with the Win version, meaning separate servers. Meaning starting > > all over again. =( I'll keep my 5GB Win2k partition specifically to play > > it. My Wintendo, as it were. > > Uhm...I've heard you can run EverCrack on WineX and play well, with > a few details (some sounds or some crap like that...I don't play > EverCrack :) google is your friend :) If I'm going to sit down and play EQ, i want it to work 100%... =) I've tried WineX, and while it's ok, doesn't really play to well on my workstation with it's odd dual-head setup (2MB PCI video card and a 16MB AGP). It's caused strange issues for me in the past. So I've got one machine that is a f/t cooker machine that dual-boots win2k. It's helpful for the odd time i need to run win software (not often) or testing stuff like samba. > > So there is *one* good thing about Windows, for me. =) > > Nah, if you can WineX it, you don't need windows :) > > Vox, who loves his WC3 and D2 on winex :) I play WC3 and D2 on my mac, so I'm not worried about that... =) WineX is alright, and it's been cool to play with, but when I play on my Linux workstation, which isn't often, I usually play the older Loki games I've got... except SimCity3000 doesn't want to run on cooker for some reason... haven't explored that one yet tho. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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