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From: Kevin Gordon <kgordon@××××××××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-1.0 rc4 pre2 on cd
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 02:26:55
Message-Id: 006f01c0ef2b$c1a71a40$0501010a@kgpro
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-1.0 rc4 pre2 on cd by Daniel Robbins
1 Hi Daniel,
2 I burnt the CD on the 20th February this year and used ext2 which works
3 fine. I hoped to move my COM+ studies to CORBA programming but once one
4 starts with linux it is difficult to get back to the original goal! Thank
5 you for your past help.
6 Kevin.
7
8 ----- Original Message -----
9 From: "Daniel Robbins" <drobbins@g.o>
10 To: <gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org>
11 Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 4:29 AM
12 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-1.0 rc4 pre2 on cd
13
14
15 > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:47:16PM +1200, Kevin Gordon wrote:
16 > > I have successfully used my cd containing gentoo-1.0 rc4 pre2 on my
17 computer
18 > > with 256Mb RAM and progressed into downloading applications on the net
19 via
20 > > portage. When I try to use the same cd on a second computer with 128 Mb
21 RAM
22 > > :
23 > > #tar xjvf /mnt/distcd/packages/sys.tbz2 -C /mnt/gentoo
24 > > the computer completely locks up (at various stages - one at which I
25 think
26 > > was almost finished).
27 > > So I tried:
28 > > #mkdir /mnt/gentoo/windows
29 > > #mount -t vfat /dev/hdb7 /mnt/gentoo/windows
30 > > #tar xjvf /mnt/gentoo/windows/sys.tbz2 -C /nmt/gentoo
31 > > ERROR segmentation fault.
32 > > I have also installed the cd drive that wrote the above gentoo cd but no
33 > > success.
34 > > Any suggestions please?
35 >
36 > Hrm; well, we don't support the 1.0_rc4_pre2 release anymore since it
37 includes a
38 > flaky kernel that causes ReiserFS filesystems to become corrupt. May I
39 ask where
40 > you grabbed it from? (it shouldn't be on ibiblio or any of our mirrors
41 anymore).
42 >
43 > You can expect a new release of Gentoo Linux by the end of this week. I
44 have an
45 > half-complete bootable CD image and Achim is putting tons of work into
46 fixing all
47 > the build problems he can find in our current Portage tree.
48 >
49 > Best Regards,
50 >
51 > --
52 > Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
53 > President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
54 > Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
55 >
56 > _______________________________________________
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60 >

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Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-1.0 rc4 pre2 on cd Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>