Text 6179, 96 rader
Skriven 2006-06-01 16:02:52 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 6178 av Paul Rogers (1:105/360.0)
Ärende: You gotta smile
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Hey Paul!

Jun 01 08:39 06, Paul Rogers wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 PR> See, I got this thread back on-topic, and the Subject still
 PR> makes wry sense.

I think only on the surface was it off-topic.  I knew it would eventually lead
somewhere more linuxie.  :-)

 PR> I don't install half the packages, and in some I configure
 PR> without apps I don't think necessary.

Good plan.  That is what the neighbour is doing.  I am not sure how far he got
with it.

 PR> I'm going to have to use
 PR> it to cut & paste the LFS build commands into scripts again.

Yep.  I always have to alter a few things but basically I try and be as
faithful as I can to their methodology.  Also I skip a few packages and add a
few that I find useful, such as replacing grub with lilo, but also a few other
things.  The basic idea is the same.

 PR> I know.  Somebody tightened the acceptable syntax, and the older
 PR> KDE used some sloppy constructs that got past the old compiler.

Sounds about right.  Personally it doesn't worry me any.

 PR> Linus insists gcc-2.95 is the proper compiler to use for the
 PR> kernel,

Really?  Which kernel version is he using?  Which glibc version, etc.?

 PR> but I've been using the native v3.x in pod.  Same
 PR> difference.

I've started using gcc-4.1 quite a bit lately but havew also gotten more frugal
about what ends up running on my systems.  As of today there are no gui apps
and no X but that will change once I am happy with what I want out of this
deal.

 PR> Tar was what's running.  Despite it's protestations of
 PR> innocence, I'm still a little suspicious of the drive.

Yeah.  Sounds like that is the case.

 PR> "Have"?  No boot loader, it's all squeaky clean now.  All the
 PR> King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put it together
 PR> again, couldn't even delete & start over.  So I wrote zeros to
 PR> the whole thing.  It was using grub.  Some partioners could see
 PR> the small hda1 (/boot), hda2 extended with hda5 (/), but even
 PR> those had bad pointers, so they said.

That sounds really suspicious to me.  I think I'll stick to lilo as I had some
troubles with grub but nothing that serious.  In the case here it simply
stopped booting and I used lilo to fix it.  The last drive I saw trashed
simular to what you're describing was a usb flashdisk formatted to boot by
win98 (faked floppy boot).  It had to be repaired afterwards despite working
for a little while.

 PR> I've got a Trinux with a 2.4.21 kernel & packages.  Figured that
 PR> was new enough.

Should be.

 PR> accepted the error of my ways and began doing my penance.

I hate when that happens.

 PR> Should be.  Pascal's smart and has decent judgement for a "kid".

Oh yeah.  I don't always agree with his choices but totally agree as to the
why's.

 PR> Haven't heard from him in a while.

Heard from him earlier this week.  He is responsible for 'arena'.  Did up some
nice docs for it and even the pdf version works unlike broken MS based ones. 
He used latex to output all the formats, including the text version.  They all
work excellent here.

 PR> I took the easy way out and went with what I had.

That works for me.  :-)

 PR> Can't blame parted.  It was hosed pretty badly.

Right.  I've seen it happen but always with windows.  Never seen it happen in
linux.  :::knock on wood:::

Life is good,
Maurice

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