Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> > Is the floppy full? What happens when you try to copy the > > contents to the hd? And when you try to mount it? And when you > > try to read the files on it? > > OS/2 listing of floppy: is this really an OS? hum, sorry. > 5 file(s) 1025240 bytes used > 431104 bytes free ok, it helps. i'll try myself. [...] > 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 :-). > > 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 system, insert the 1st CD and type in "rescue" before the boot. > 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. We need to sort our bugfixing work. > > 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. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
