Re: 2.2rev3 CDs (and status of cdimage.d.o)

2001-04-22 Thread phil

On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:15:03AM +1000, jason andrade wrote:

 have debian addressed the alleged file corruption (ext2) issue that
 i heard was present in 2.4.X uptil 2.4.3 ?

Well, given that that seems to be what's been causing cdimage.debian.org
grief recently (I stupidly upgraded to 2.4.3 to see if it would cure
a DMA interrupt error I've been getting on the HPT366 controller)
I'd say the answer to that question was probably "no".

BTW open.hands.com (a.k.a. cdimage.d.o, www.uk.d.o etc.) died rather
more effectively than expected, and is no longer getting past the LILO
"Loading Linux" bit.  I should be able to sort this out before the
end of today (GMT), at which point I'll move /dev/hdc to /dev/hdg, 
which should apparently side-step the issues with the VIA/Athlon combo.

Cheers, Phil.
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Re: 2.2rev3 CDs (and status of cdimage.d.o)

2001-04-22 Thread phil

On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:43:03AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 BTW open.hands.com (a.k.a. cdimage.d.o, www.uk.d.o etc.) died rather
 more effectively than expected, and is no longer getting past the LILO
 "Loading Linux" bit.  I should be able to sort this out before the
 end of today (GMT), at which point I'll move /dev/hdc to /dev/hdg, 
 which should apparently side-step the issues with the VIA/Athlon combo.

It seems that that was a mis-diagnosis, and what what actually happening
was 2.4.3 not doing the right thing with serial consoles, combined with
me being a bit dim, and not realising that that was why there was no output
after the "Loading Linux".  Doh!

Anyway, the good news is that open is now up and running, using a 2.2.19
kernel, it's not generating the { DriveStatusError BadCRC } messages
on hdc (that seem to be related to the problems it was having), and it's
now running ext3, so should not end up failing to fsck if it does crash
again.

I've run debsums and rsync -c mirrors, without finding any corruption, so
it looks like I'm ready to do a CD run.

The only things I'm doing to the archive prior to making CDs, is deleting
the bulkmail binaries, and adding a link for the mysql source.  If there's
something I'm missing, please tell me about it.

Cheers, Phil.
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