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/ biggest doesn't mean good. think microsoft, etc. anyway, that's not really the topic of this ML. sorry. > > > 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. seeing that the problem doesn't come from a corrupted floppy nor a full floppy helped me to guess the problem was for real. no i didn't need the floppy, i tried by myself, thanks. > > > 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. If you want that our distro work very well with your hardware, the best is to send concise & detailed bugreports on this mailing-list about each problem at the beginning of the "beta" cycle of a new release. It has the best chance to be worked out. [...] > > 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? Yes, all "install" methods support rescue mode, including cd boot & floppy boot with whatever .img you prefer (the rescue is a program image similar to the installation program). [...] > > We need to sort our bugfixing work. > > Isn't that what a Bugzilla was made to help to do? Yep. Though bugzilla has never quite worked well for us. At least we're a number of developers who do close our bugs (when bugzilla decides to work). This ML is a prefered way to report problems for the "cooker" version and the installation program, though. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
