Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?

2003-01-06 Thread Daniel Segel 
At 12:20 PM 1/6/2003 +, Anne wrote:

Or set a filter on your machine to ignore them


I find this to be a poor solution for many reasons:

1. This is a *newbie* list, and some of the people on it really are newbies 
who have more pressing issues on their mind than how to set up such a filter.

2. I don't like the idea of setting up new filters every time a new OT 
subject pops up.

3. Not everybody reads mail continuously. By the time I got around to 
checking this list there were already 10-20 OT messages clogging up the list.

4. If the signal:noise ration on this list goes down low enough it ceases 
being a worthwhile mailing list.

This is an e-mail list, not a web forum. Subscribers have no choice but to 
accept (or somehow process) everything that comes down the line, so please 
be considerate and keep the OT stuff to a minimum.

Daniel


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[newbie] kernel panic during install when formatting swap partition on PowerMac 8600

2003-01-05 Thread Daniel Segel 
I'm trying to install Mandrake 8.2/PPC on a Powermac 8600/300 with 2x4GB 
SCSI hard drives and 192MB RAM in it. I've tried installing onto both 
drives, but I get the same error either way. The problem I'm having is that 
I get a kernel panic when the installer gets to the point of trying to 
format the swap partition. If I don't create a swap partition then it goes 
through that step just fine, but obviously I wouldn't bother continuing in 
that case.

The weird part is that I get a similar crash when trying to install 
Yellowdog linux as well, but it's only the swap partition that causes a 
problem.

I've already tried a low-level format of the drives, and I've tried putting 
the swap partition in different places on the drive. I also ran the 
Yellowdog version of parted and tried creating partitions manually - 
everything goes fine until I actually try to create the filesystem on the 
swap partition, then it blows up. Actually, if I create a really small swap 
partition (~10MB) then it works OK, but 128MB or larger doesn't. I haven't 
done any testing to determine the largest successful swap partition I can 
create a filesystem on.

Any ideas? This has been driving me crazy for a week now.

Thanks,

Daniel 


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