On Saturday 30 June 2001 12:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> For starters I am really exited to see MandrakeSoft forging ahead
> with a router/firwall only version of its distribution.
>
> My test system goes something as follows:
> 1. Older ASUS A7V m/b with BIOS version 1007 and vt82c686a south
> bridge. (Reflashed BIOS a while back.)
> 2. Hitachi DVD ROM GD-7500 on secondary controller.
> 3. IBM DTTA-371010 on onboard Promise controller. (I don't really
> care about what is on this disk.)
>
>
> My venture to install on my test system did not make it far. I do
> not use the primary IDE controller on the board because it keeps on
> hanging. I have the DVD drive on the secondary controller by
> itself because I have had too many bad experiences putting hard
> drives on the same bus as my CD ROM drives and I have found that
> sticking CD ROM drives on a Promise controller did not work all
> that great in the past. When I tried to install SNF it said that it
> could not find any valid drives to install on. When I stick in the
> mdk 8.0 cd it has no problems detecting the hard drive.
>
> When I downloaded the ISO image I checked it against the md5 check
> sum and it checked out. I burned the CD using gcombust under mdk
> 8.0 with an HP 9100i. I burned at 8x w/ no fifo size specified
> (said it will assume 4 mb buffer which is what the drive has
> anyway) w/ PAD and DAO options selected. One thing that caught my
> attention (I am an old xcdroast fan though with 8.0 it doesn't
> quite work right anymore) is that when I mounted the image on a
> loopback device and specified a verify under gcombust it reported
> that a lot of the files on the loopback where regular while the
> files on the burned CD where weird. I am not sure what this means.
> Here is an except from the top:
>
> File /mnt/test/Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/basename is a regular file
> while file /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/basename is a weird
> file File /mnt/test/Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/bug is a regular file
> while file /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/bug is a weird file
> File /mnt/test/Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/cat is a regular file while
> file /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/cat is a weird file
> File /mnt/test/Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/chmod is a regular file
> while file /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/chmod is a weird
> file
>
> Does anyone have suggestions on where to go from hear?
See mandrakeforum for info on XCDROAST. It was a blasted theme file
that was messing it and a bunch of other programs up.
Do that update, it is called mandrake_desk.
A good XCDROAST is in cooker.
DAO is bad news on cdrecord 1.09. Update to 1.10 (on cooker).
Civileme
