Re: [rock-user] Installation report drock 2.0.1 rev. 2585 (incoming)
Rene Rebe <[email protected]>
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Hi,
thanks, again, for your time.
On: Tue, 25 May 2004 11:00:44 +0200,
Silvio Godenzi <godenzi-uMe//[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> first of all thanks for providing IA-32 images.
>
> I could successfully install a base and a workstation system.
Good. (I only had the time to install a previous version where I
applied updates afterwards and found no time to verify their
correctness ...).
> When installing additional packages gasgui tries to
> mount to /mnt/cdrom but there is only /mnt/cdrom0.
> -> change, or mkdir /mnt/cdrom
Yes - this is a already known issue. I'll fix this to /mnt/cdrom0.
> microcode_ctl: cannot open /dev/cpu/microcode
> because its misssing.
Ouhm. /dev/cpu/microcode should bee created by devfs if the kernel
driver find a support CPU. Does your CPU allows microcode update?
> -> mknod /dev/cpu/microcode c 10 184 in init script
>
> Despite it is generated for a Pentium-MMX it also
> runs on a Pentium-S 133 MHz without MMX!
Ouhm - you might hit the "Illegal Instruction" trap for some binaries
where GCC generated MXX instructions ...
> Suggestions:
>
> - MD5 checksums for ISO images would be helpful to verify
> the download
The official files have (automatically generated).
> - An additional DVD image would also be appreciated
I prefer CDs for the official ones since they are in more common
use. Third party or special releases (for fairs) might however be
DVDs.
> - As i386, i486 and Pentium-nommx aren't supported I would
> drop Pentium-mmx(i586) generation as well and compile
> for Pentium-Pro(i686 - much faster) which everybody
> will most probably have.
I'm used to pentium-mmx since the old dRock days. But you are right I
might update the optimization setting used for my official desktop
ISOs.
Sincerely yours,
René Rebe
- ROCK Linux stable release maintainer
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