On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 09:23:34PM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Well, no. I don't have that many computers over here :-). But the fact that
> > the freezes only happen with M6 and not with M5.3 on the same machine seems
> > to imply to me that this is not hardware related.
>
> Yes and no, depends on the point of view.
>
> In M6 some things are different (surprise!). Take the hdparm
> optimization for exemple. My hds didn't work with that. So I
> could either say, it's ok with M5.3 so if it doesn't work in M6
> then it's M6's fault. Or the other way round, M6 is ok, it's just
> my hardware which is M5.3-compatible but not M6-compatible.
>
> Take the first Win-version which didn't run on 286-machines. Was
> it Windows' fault or a hardware issue? I must admit this example
> is a bit hairy though...
Yep, it is ;-). I am not trying to run M6 on a 486 or an Alpha. This is just a
- somewhat oversized - ordinary PC. BTW: I suspect hdparm of being the bad guy,
since I got my last freeze with 'rpm -e emacs-el' *grin*.
I've now commented the optimizations (as well as lots of other stuff I just
don't need) in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. Let's see.
If this still won't work, I'm off - there are lots of new distros out there I
haven't tried yet... I've spent most of the time since M6 arrived here with
installing, uninstalling, reinstalling, upgrading, downgrading, upgrading again
(who am I telling this...), rebooting. It's not that I won't normally enjoy
such stuff, but I only do when *I* want to do that (does this sentence make sense?).
>
> And recently I read someones writing about "a little
> over-optimization" in M6.
Well, M6 is surely the most exciting Linux distro I've come across yet...
tom
>
> Wolfgang
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