Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > OS/2 listing of floppy: > is this really an OS? hum, sorry.
Made by the biggest computer company on the planet. http://www-3.ibm.com/software/os/warp/ > > 5 file(s) 1025240 bytes used > > 431104 bytes free > ok, it helps. i'll try myself. What helps, knowing the file sizes? You didn't answer if you want an image of the floppy sent to you. > > 9-Everyone is frantically rushing against an unreasonable deadline to > > release a distro that isn't ready yet. > each person has his own criterions for "ready". in general, > people enjoying bugs are biased and think that the distro is not > ready :-). Especially those of us suffering multiple bugs, like no mouse in X, can't make a boot floppy, can't start and install from 5 year old Symbios SCSI CD, and other basic stuff. The only version actually ready for release is the last one before a major release, e.g. 7.2 & 8.2. 7.0, 8.0, & 9.0 were/are just glorified betas, just like all versions of windoze. > > > In this situation, I'd favor `2', but it's true that the problem > > > also needs investigation from the people involved. Also, a big > > I don't see how you can release a product incapable of creating a rescue > > floppy either during or post install. I've seen several others report > It's not a rescue floppy, it's a boot floppy. To rescue your It's a floppy that won't do what it was made to do. > system, insert the 1st CD and type in "rescue" before the boot. These are network/hd installs. The CD is an iso image, not a real CD. Does hd.img or network.img floppies support rescue mode? > > this same problem I've encountered as long as several weeks ago. > > > problem is that floppies are very likely to have hardware > > > failures. Many times with similar bugs we spent time trying to > > The exact same floppy worked just fine on the exact same machine using > > the exact same floppy drive with 8.2. The same drive started the install > > with a floppy made on the same drive using hd.img (and also network.img > > for the beta 3 install). > Maybe you're the exception, but many people often report similar > bugreports being sure that their floppies are ok, and discover > afterwards that their floppy was failing. I usually have enough hardware around to change it if hardware is a suspected problem. > We need to sort our bugfixing work. Isn't that what a Bugzilla was made to help to do? > > > investigate, just to see that it was only due to h/w failure, so > > > most of the times we don't bother. > > Users should be able to see that Bugzilla is working. No matter what I > > query there, I get "Zarro Boogs found". I've yet to get any response > > from a MandrakeExpert posting either. > If we're such bastards, why don't you quit this place and go to > somewhere else where people are more professional and have "zarro > boogs", but this time because they all fixed them in a minute? > I'm sure all our competitors are like that. Just because we know you are imperfect doesn't mean there is someplace better we can go. -- ". . . . in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you . . . ." Matthew 7:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
