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From: Rafael Barrera Oro <borafael@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-installer@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-installer] Re: Succesful installation
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:18:04
Message-Id: a964044f0601200717s5f54a116k62a0678322746372@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-installer] Re: Succesful installation by Andrew Gaffney
1 Well then, its a hardware failure allright, i will now proceed to
2 cross my fingers and hope the promblem dissapeared magicaly, if it
3 fails again ill go shopping i guess.
4
5 Thanks for your help!
6
7 Rafa
8
9 On 1/20/06, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o> wrote:
10 > Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
11 > > First of all thanks for the feedback everyone.
12 > >
13 > > I guess you are all right to suspect a hardware problem but i am using
14 > > extensively tested equipment (or at least i been told so). Anyway,
15 > > yesterday i succeded, the only change i made was choosing the liveCD
16 > > kernel instead of the gentoo sources, and so far, everything is
17 > > working, does it makes sense to you?
18 >
19 > That would take a little bit of stress off the disks since it doesn't have
20 > to
21 > compile a kernel, but I'm still going to blame your hardware. The installer
22 > doesn't do anything that would make your filesystems suddenly turn
23 > read-only.
24 > Also, random failures (not reproducible) are almost always hardware related.
25 >
26 > I've done probably 80+ installs with various versions of the installer using
27 > the
28 > same LiveCD on a few different boxes, and I have never had the problems you
29 > are
30 > describing.
31 >
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33 > Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
34 > Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project
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