Yeap, that was another glitch I did not notice until late yesterday. Seems as though those lost cdrom boots also moved me forward to the year 2036. It is fixed now though. Thanks for pointing it out though.
Al Niessner On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 18:07, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Friday 07 November 2036 06:21 am, Al Niessner wrote: > > I have Mandrake 8.2 up and running on a twin P3 desktop and now my > > laptop. The desktop went without a hitch because the disk was erased and > > full installation was done. My laptop was much more difficult. To start > > with, I had to use the usb.img kernel on floppy to get anywhere in the > > install process. If I just ran the cd from the start, the install > > program would simply vanish after the serial detection. Booting with the > > usb kernel got me past that and to the upgrade. Things went smoothly > > until I tried to recompile the kernel with acpi instead of apm. Found > > out that the links in /etc/alternatives were broken. I had then pointing > > to 3.0.1 which of course got upgraded to 3.0.4 but the by then the links > > had been broken. I had to go back and manually but the links back in > > /usr/bin and correct the ones I had in /etc/alternatives. So far, that > > was the only glitch. > > > > Good work Mandrake. > > > > Al > > Al: > This probably isn't related to your problem, but either your date/time > settings are screwed up, or I've just had a very long nap. Since my beard > doesn't reach the floor, and KMail reports a time adjustment of +30349438 > from GMT, I think it's at your end. > -- cmg
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