[arch-general] Kernel ext2 driver

2008-03-02 Thread Keith
On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 at 13:41:46 +0100, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 20:50 -0600, Dan McGee wrote: > Your entire rest of statement was valid, but why on earth did you make > a claim like this? I have to speak up and say something here. ext2 is > nowhere near d

[arch-general] BitTorrents not seeding

2008-03-02 Thread Ravi Desai
Hey, I've downloaded the torrents of Archlinux-i686-2007.08-2.{core,ftp}.iso, but am unable to re-seed them through bit-torrent. Deluge (the BT client that I am using) says this: "Tracker status: Alert: (HTTP code = 200, times in a row = 7)". I'm not really sure what that means.

Re: [arch-general] Kernel ext2 driver

2008-03-02 Thread eliott
> don't be so aggressive... I just asked friendly to add ext2 to the > standard kernel, because that is the only change I need to do, to run my > systems. My apologies. I reread my post and it does appear a bit cranky. Not sure about 'agressive', but it was definitely 'grumpy'.

Re: [arch-general] Kernel ext2 driver

2008-03-02 Thread Peter Feuerer
On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 13:59 -0800, eliott wrote: > This thread is stupid. > If you want ext2 compiled into the kernel by default.. for goodness > sake, do it yourself. It would be what.. a two line change in the ABS > pkgbuild for the kernel? > > The original poster said he had a thin client farm

Re: [arch-general] Kernel ext2 driver

2008-03-02 Thread eliott
This thread is stupid. If you want ext2 compiled into the kernel by default.. for goodness sake, do it yourself. It would be what.. a two line change in the ABS pkgbuild for the kernel? The original poster said he had a thin client farm using the old initrd image, so he has likely diverged from th

Re: [arch-general] Kernel ext2 driver

2008-03-02 Thread Marc Deop i Argemí
On Sunday 02 March 2008, Jan de Groot wrote: > External harddisks and USB sticks come preformatted with FAT32 because > NTFS isn't compatible with Mac OS X. FAT32 is the only choice for these > vendors if they want cross-compatibility. > When you install Windows on a >32GB partition, the setup does

Re: [arch-general] Kernel ext2 driver

2008-03-02 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 14:11 +0100, Marc Deop i Argemí wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2008, Jan de Groot wrote: > > then FAT32 wouldn't be a dead filesystem either. > > Well, in my experience almost every USB stick or newly buyed hard disk comes > formated on FAT32. I don't wanna get into why is tha

Re: [arch-general] Kernel ext2 driver

2008-03-02 Thread Marc Deop i Argemí
On Sunday 02 March 2008, Jan de Groot wrote: > then FAT32 wouldn't be a dead filesystem either. Well, in my experience almost every USB stick or newly buyed hard disk comes formated on FAT32. I don't wanna get into why is that, but it's just the way it is. By the way, I know many people that ha

Re: [arch-general] Kernel ext2 driver

2008-03-02 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 20:50 -0600, Dan McGee wrote: > > Your entire rest of statement was valid, but why on earth did you make > a claim like this? I have to speak up and say something here. ext2 is > nowhere near dead. I use it on my /boot partition on every Linux > install, and every filesystem

Re: [arch-general] Boot sequence stops at modules (rc.sysinit)

2008-03-02 Thread Roman Kyrylych
2008/3/2, Stephen Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello All, > > Thank you for your replies. > > To answer a few questions: > > * versions before and after ugrade (I'm can see I've probably > attempted a combination which won't work...) > - kernel: 2.6.15-2 ---> 2.6.22 > - udev: 079-1 > - i

Re: [arch-general] Kernel ext2 driver

2008-03-02 Thread Marc Deop i Argemí
On Sunday 02 March 2008, Dan McGee wrote: > >  Ext2 is a dead filesystem and has been replaced by ext3. > > Your entire rest of statement was valid, but why on earth did you make > a claim like this? I have to speak up and say something here. ext2 is > nowhere near dead. I use it on my /boot partit

Re: [arch-general] Boot sequence stops at modules (rc.sysinit)

2008-03-02 Thread Stephen Wilkinson
Hello All, Thank you for your replies. To answer a few questions: * versions before and after ugrade (I'm can see I've probably attempted a combination which won't work...) - kernel: 2.6.15-2 ---> 2.6.22 - udev: 079-1 - initscripts: 0.7.1-17 - mkinitrd 1.01-25 -> mkinitcpio 0.5.15-2 When I upgr