Chuck,
you're quite welcome...and as a side note...just to stir the pot a
little :)
I have a feeling that it's just the newer WD drives that are having this
problem. at least more so then the older ones cause just yesterday at
work I install 8.0 on two WD drives successfully the first time thro
Ok, I'll add my U.S. $.02 to the brouhaha about WD disk drives:
Up until 2 years ago, I didn't care really one way or the other -
just went for best price. I still tend to lean toward best
price (I recently (about 2 months ago) bought a 40G Quantum
for $120 after rebate!), however abt 2 years a
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Todd Lyons
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 4:24 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Offlist: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications
> (Software Installeris first on that list)
>
>
> "Jose M. San
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Todd Lyons
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 4:24 AM
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Subject: Offlist: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications
(Software Installeris first on that list)
"Jose M. Sanchez&q
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Todd Lyons
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 4:21 PM
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Subject: Offlist: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications
(Software Installeris first on that list)
"Jose M. Sanchez&q
On Wednesday 25 April 2001 06:40 pm, email wrote:
> > Stay away from Western Digital and Maxtor. Especially
> > Maxtor (in my opinion).
>
> Why do you say that. I've hd nothing but good luck with Maxtor hardrives.
> I currently have a ten, 2 twenties, and 1 thirty at home that are running
> just
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Pedro Del Medico Piermattei wrote:
> hi people, check this out
>
> http://www.vmware.com/support/ws2/doc/whatsnew_ws_linux.html
I'm guessing that you are referring to VMWare not supported on 2.4.x
kernel. The problem is the vmnet module's use of a definition that was
taken
I personally prefer Quantum hard drives, although I have not had
any maxtors or WD, I know about IBM and Quantums being
good linux drives.
On Tuesday 24 April 2001 11:11 pm, so spoke Dan Swartzendruber:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mark Weaver wrote:
> > Todd...
> >
> > What's wrong with Maxtor? Thats
Well I did re-install using a seagate ST32155W and a 2094W controller.
8.0 installed without complaint and "just worked"
Hummm. Changing drives sure did change the behavior of the install.
So to re-cap ;
1: Mark suggested that using WD was a possible source of trouble.
2: Changing to a differen
oot".
It's hearsay assertions like this that tend to get all sorts of rumors
started.
-JMS
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 7:37 AM
Cc: Expert List
Subject: RE: [expe
> Stay away from Western Digital and Maxtor. Especially
> Maxtor (in my opinion).
Why do you say that. I've hd nothing but good luck with Maxtor hardrives.
I currently have a ten, 2 twenties, and 1 thirty at home that are running
just fine. Then at work we use Maxtor drives in our test machin
At 11:49 AM 4/25/2001 -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:
>On Wed Apr 25, 2001 at 01:21:52PM -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>
> > Vincent, any update on the kernel source build issue I raised over the
> weekend?
>
>Not yet. I'm waiting for someone to get back to me on this issue, but
>I have a few oth
On Wed Apr 25, 2001 at 01:21:52PM -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> Vincent, any update on the kernel source build issue I raised over the weekend?
Not yet. I'm waiting for someone to get back to me on this issue, but
I have a few other updates occupying my time at the moment so it may
take a
On Tue Apr 24, 2001 at 10:35:38PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Todd...
>
> What's wrong with Maxtor? Thats what I'm running now. in fact, that's all
> I've ever run with Linux. I've got two of them in my Mandrake 7.2 box here
> at home. 13GB and 3.5GB. this things runs for months at a time withou
Okay, I firmly disagree that the IBM 75GXP are slower
than Maxtors drives.
But whatever. Sorry, this is irrelevant to the list.
--- Wood Brent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- Todd Flinders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Stay away from Western Digital and Maxtor.
> Especially
> > Maxtor (in
Vincent, any update on the kernel source build issue I raised over the weekend?
s chatter, IDE/PCI noise, etc... (as with the VIA chipsets...)
>
> -JMS
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:33 PM
> Cc: Expert List
> Subject: Re: [expert] 8.0 fi
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:33 PM
Cc: Expert List
Subject: Re: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications (Software
Installeris first on that list)
Um...I don't know how to say this gently, but WD drives and l
Um...I don't know how to say this gently, but WD drives and linux often
don't get along very well. For the most part WD drives are "win-drives".
what that means is that they were designed in such a way that would allow
them to be made at lower costs for an OS that doesn't talk directly to the
hard
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Todd...
>
> What's wrong with Maxtor? Thats what I'm running now. in fact, that's all
> I've ever run with Linux. I've got two of them in my Mandrake 7.2 box here
> at home. 13GB and 3.5GB. this things runs for months at a time without any
> hiccups. I've
--- Todd Flinders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stay away from Western Digital and Maxtor. Especially
> Maxtor (in my opinion).
--- Todd Flinders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stay away from Western Digital and Maxtor. Especially
> Maxtor (in my opinion).
My experience differs...
I've had about
Todd...
What's wrong with Maxtor? Thats what I'm running now. in fact, that's all
I've ever run with Linux. I've got two of them in my Mandrake 7.2 box here
at home. 13GB and 3.5GB. this things runs for months at a time without any
hiccups. I've got another machine that's an older Dell with a Qua
Stay away from Western Digital and Maxtor. Especially
Maxtor (in my opinion).
--- Charles Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >
> > Chuck,
> >
> > Point well taken. ;-) you aren't by any chance
> using Western Digital hard
> > drives in your machine are you?
> >
>
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> Chuck,
>
> Point well taken. ;-) you aren't by any chance using Western Digital hard
> drives in your machine are you?
>
Ack.. As a matter of fact I am
I have two caviar drives, a 307AA (30.7 gig) and 136AA(13.6gig)
Is that a problem? I don't remember seeing anything
begin Andrew Judge quotation:
> I tried the beta 3 on a test machine that loaded 7, 7.1 and 7.2 perfectly
> and couldn't get 8 loaded. It would only load about 60M of programs and if
> I manually selected the programs (3G space), it would break at the very end
> of install (yes I did MD5 Sum).
> Cc: "Expert List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 1:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications
>
>
> > tell me...is XFree86-3.3.6 offered at all on this version, or do you have
> > to use one of the 4.0.x varieties?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Mark
> > *
>
>
>
Chuck,
Point well taken. ;-) you aren't by any chance using Western Digital hard
drives in your machine are you?
--
Mark
*
"what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years
at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast
emotional onslaught of my children. You never fin
Actually, I had the same libsafe problem in 7.1!
--- "Nima S. Panahi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe I have a handle on the problem now. I did
> a complete fresh and
> minimal install, without using anything from the
> second CD except for
> kernel source. I then went about recompiling
>
I believe I have a handle on the problem now. I did a complete fresh and
minimal install, without using anything from the second CD except for
kernel source. I then went about recompiling programs and they worked!
infact, I did not have to use kgcc as before and the previously compiled
versions wo
hi people, check this out
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws2/doc/whatsnew_ws_linux.html
--
Best Regards,
Pedro Del Medico P.
Linux user # 144076
Well, from what I have learned upto this point , you will be just fine as
long as you only install exactly what you need, the least amount from CD
2, as the problem packages seem to be coming from there. Especially,
libsafe WILL mess your system up. Other than that, it should be fine.
Hopefully ma
So, from reading all the posts here, it seems clear that I should NOT d/l MDK
8.0...maybe the 8.1 release will work right.
So my question is: I am thinking of shifting from KDE 2.1 over to the latest
Gnome - although I need to keep both installed because I actually have an app
or two that requ
I downloaded and burned the iso images of Mandrake 8.0 about 3-4 days before
it was officially announced for release (so I probably got a partial beta).
It installed just fine for me and has been working quite well. I have no
problems except KDM displays all services as users along with usern
< SARCASM >
I really love the Software Installer Error Message
"Do To Some Errors, Some Packages Were Not Installed"
Nothing like getting right to the point, but I am a little overwhelmed
with information.
I'm filling out a bug report right now, but haven't quite figured out
how to reduce the in
Yes, you have the choice between 3.3.6 and 4.0.3.
-dave
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From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Expert List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY application
um...this isn't making me feel secure about installing this version of
mandrake. were these out-a the box installs or expert custom installations
that are being such a problem?
--
Mark
*
"what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years
at times becomes obscured and even hidden am
tell me...is XFree86-3.3.6 offered at all on this version, or do you have
to use one of the 4.0.x varieties?
--
Mark
*
"what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years
at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast
emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish b
s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I did a clean install and all went well except that many of the apps I
I too did a clean install of what I think was beta2 iso on the machine I plan
on becoming my new firewall.
Everything went extremely smoothly on my IBM PC300GL with a wimpy 64M ram ;-).
> sele
could have changed
in a few days :(
Andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nima S. Panahi
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 5:24 PM
To: Charles A Edwards
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications
Its drivin
> I'm not very impressed with what people are reporting about their experience
> with the new stable release of Mandrake, version 8.0. Does anyone have
> anything *good* to say about it? I might end up just sticking with my 7.2
> version, which I've updated with KDE 2.1.1 already. No sense dea
I agree, I can't even burn the dang iso image, this sucks, Beavis uhh huh huh.
both xcdroast and eroaster said:
Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660.
Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '1,0,0'
scsib
Upgrading to 8.0 broke all my fullscreen OpenGL apps. All my hardware worked
without any trouble, and windowed OpenGL works without a hitch, but going to
fullscreen crashes the X-server. I'm running the default XFree 4.0.3 on a voodoo3 AGP.
Any ideas? I want to try tuxracer!
On Monday 23 Apri
I did a clean install and all went well except that many of the apps I
selected didn't load during install, like sndconfig- I *think* anything from
the ext-iso. But I installed from hdd, so I kinda happy it
worked at all. I just downloaded anything I noticed I needed and installed
afterward
On Sunday 22 April 2001 17:23, you wrote:
> Its driving me crazy! Everysince upgrading from 8.0 final from 8.0 beta3,
> many applications segmet out where before worked. Its seems that almost
> all programs that did not come with 8.0 final segment fault. I have tried
> recompiling the ones that I
Its driving me crazy! Everysince upgrading from 8.0 final from 8.0 beta3,
many applications segmet out where before worked. Its seems that almost
all programs that did not come with 8.0 final segment fault. I have tried
recompiling the ones that I could with kgcc, kg++ and the such. However, I
sti
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