Re: [expert] Install: Let's fix it, dammit!

1999-11-12 Thread ibi

On 11-12-99 Derek wrote: 

I'm a developer, but I'm not entirely clear on how the boot disks
work.  I also do not have a huge amount of free time right now."

This is a quick read but very informational, imho. 
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO-3.html

Pj
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Pj



[expert] Install: Let's fix it, dammit!

1999-11-11 Thread Derek Simkowiak

[re: The busted PCMCIA installation...]
> Contacted the Mandrake developers at 6.0 and was told it would be
> fixed shortly but also have not seen a functional image on the
> Mandrake or Redhat/mirrors sites.

Well, then, let's fix this thing.  I want to run Mandrake on my
laptop.

I'm a developer, but I'm not entirely clear on how the boot disks
work.  I also do not have a huge amount of free time right now.

If one of the Mandrake developers can give me a general idea of
what's wrong (it looks like a ramdisk is simply being mounted read-only
when it should be mounted read/write), where the source code for the
installation disks is, and what file I should look in, I'd be happy to
give it a once-over and see if I can fix it.  Then I'll post a patch to
this list.

...but I don't have time to wade through a large source tree
trying to hunt down the right file, function, and figure out from scratch
how the code is designed.  So:  Mandrake install developers, where should
I look to find the problem?  And, where is the source repository for the
install disks located?


Thank You,
Derek Simkowiak
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