On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Daniel Tabuenca wrote:
> Ok, I just did an upgrade of the new Oxygen release. I ran into some problems.
> First of all the graphical installer does not let you use the same partition as
> both the source and the destination of an upgrade. The old text installer
> dooesn't let you do this either but you can work around it by switching to
> another virtual terminal and remounting the partition correctly. With the
> graphical install it won't let you do this because it is actually running from
> the partition (rather than in a ramdisk). It would be really convenient if the
> partition was mounted R/w (or at least there was an option to do so). This
> would/should allow to use the same partition as the source and destination of
> upgrades.
>
> I also ran into a few other problems. When trying to load the aha152x scsi
> driver I don't know what kind of options it expects. It just doesn't work
> (didn't work in previous versions of mandrake either.). I know that ot get it
> to work I need the options for the module. The command I use to load it is
> 'insmod aha152x aha152x=0x340,9' I tried putting 'aha152x=0x340,9' and tried
> just 0x340,9 and all sorts of combinations of these parameters but it just
> refuses to load. Anyone know why this might be?
>
> Another problem happened when trying to write the boot disk. It gave me an
> "insmod loop failed" error.
>
> When running mandrake I also noticed a few bugs. The DrakConf icon doesn't
> work. I checked and the file "/usr/X11R6/bin/DrakConf" does not exist. Is it
> just accidentally missing from my distro or did the upgrade forget to install
> it?
Check your Mandrake/base/depslist, make sure it's complete the last line
should be zsh. This is the typical kind of error you'll see if the mirror
is incomplete.
> When a ppp connection is configured to start at boot it is very annoying to
> have to wait for it to come all the way up. Is there a way to set it to go up
> in the background (it does this when it fails). I don't feel like waiting 30-60
> seconds for it to come up.
>
> Ohh yeah, I got a suggestion. Why not include an option in the
> installer to set up a LOADLIN boot configuration. You do it for the lnx4wn
> stuff, why not do it for regular installs too? Lilo is often not an option
> because it refuses to work with certain partition/drive configurations. You
> could do a simple nice little menu in config.sys. Also since we have that
> whole interactive startup thing, why not have an option to select the runlevel
> there? I had a problem with my X server not loading which made everything
> unusable since I was running at RL 5..
>
We are in feature freeze, it's on my todo for the next release to make
hooks in DrakX for the autoboot stuff.
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