lists wrote:
> right now I have three completely different machines that I test the cd on.
> 1) AMD AM2 3800+ 64bit machine, 1 GB ram, 250 GB Sata drive, dual layer
> DVD-RW, asus graphics gard using NVidia chipset. never seem to run into
> any problems with this one.
>
> 2) AMD Athlon 2200+ 768MB ram 80 GB ide drive + 34 GB ide, 54x cdrw and
> a dual layer dvdrw, ati powered graphics card, sis900 chipset nic. The
> chipset wasn't supported in the cd, until I mentioned it on the list.
>
> 3) Dell Inspiron 3000 [ intel pentium-mmx @ 266 MHz ] 128 MB ram 3.2 GB
> hd, 24x cdr, wireless nic. [ test new cd when it's posted for support of
> the wireless nic. ] 2 pcmcia cardbus ports. This is the beast that is a
> battle to boot any current distro, not just the livecd. the hardware
> clock is damaged, as even bypassing tsc clocksource with boot parameters
> I get tsc clocksource unstable errors whenever using time functions,
> such as using mc to copy the sources to the hard disk, or wrapping a
> build sequence in time { configure [options] && make && make install }
> I'm waiting until 6.3 is released to actually put an OS on this laptop,
> right now it's "bare metal"
Thanks Jacqui. (That's the right name, right?) This is, in part, the
type of info we need. Perhaps we can create a form online that allows
users to fill in specs and comments about various CDs, which ones worked
and what didn't, etc?
Any PHP gurus up to the task?
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JH
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