On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Jason Straight wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > If you have an affected drive, Mandrake 9.0 was a nightmare. I say this > > after having done about 10 intalls on machines which were fine, not > > seeing what all the fuss is about, to discover it really is a problem on > > some machines. > > Man this talk about iso size is petty, it's the price to pay for progress, > deal with it. Should distribute on tapes? 360K floppies? 720K floppies? > 1.44mb floppies? 650MB CD's, 700MB CD's? and in 5 years do you think they'll > be using CD's at all?
If they're going to ship with CDs, it must work on at least 95% of the drives people would possible install on. If they were to ship floppies, the equivalent would be to ship 1.88 MB floppies instead of 1.44, and that would be just as bad. This isn't on an ancient system. The newer drive in the machine I had problems with is a 2x2x6 CD-RW drive that is 3 years old. If that had been in an OEM box, the machine would be about a pIII-500. Is that really so old that you need to spend more on a new CD-ROM drive than on buying a CD-set from Mandrakestore. Mandrakesoft will eventually in effect be paying for all the CD-ROM drives people need to buy to use the distro, in money that would otherwise have come to them. > > Maybe they should compile it for i386 too? > It's compiled for i586, it should work on most i586 machines, and the CD-ROM drives they had .. when they were bought. Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
