Hi Sreangsu
You said it...
sreangsu acharyya wrote:
> i got this in my firs attempt at kernel compilation...i had not upgraded
> the sytem map. Could it be that the system map was in one of those deleted
> portions?
>
>
I am absolute sure system map was not corrupted. RHL was working. I took it down
properly and started NT install. In fact when I reinstalled RHL,
first time I
chosse not to format partition and that went too well. Nops, this can not be the case..
>
> infact i have suffered enough because of 6.2 cd. I guess its anaconda is a
> bit buggy.
I think anaconda was first introduced in RHL 6.0 PCQ Nov 1999. Tried exactly once and
dumped it. Never liked it. It's slow, unintuitive(I mean for
me. In text
install, I know what screen no., says what and where is the button. I can install it
even without my specs. So was not the case with that.) and a
hang in linux
installation was criminal offense.
I can not take that. Linux should not hang. The day I come across a genuine linux
hang, i.e. a stable system goes without a tracable and valid
reason, I will dump linux.
So far I have experienced two linux crashes and a freeze. In one crash, I played with
HDD DMA too much and it corrupted the file system.
Reinstall... In another crash, it was on a mobo I know it was faulty. The keyboard
freeze was because keyboard connector was loose. Ducking it
properly, fixed it runtime. No boot, no special check required...
> thats pretty brave way of putting things but things like this really gets
> one down ...sure did to me when my disk crashed.
>
That's true. The exercise I put in my last mail, lasted for 4.5 hours. Three NT and
five linux installs. Man.. that was terrible. I tried all
possible combinations. Only thing I got really disappointed about was, I could not
clean mbr from linux fdisk. That would have been the neat
solution.
Bye
Shridhar
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