Re: UNIX and ease of use
On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 10:12:42AM +0100, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On 3 Mar 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
> > > 3. Hammer on the installation disks, so they work *everywhere*. It's
> > > really frustrating when someone is forced to go with another
> > > distribution because our boot disks don't work.
> >
> > This I've never seen, except on laptops.
>
> There _have_ been various reports of failing bootdisks. Certain Adaptec
> controllers spring to mind. Laptops are another problem altogether,
> because they often have unsupported video chipsets as well.
Some of the standard 2.0.29 and 2.0.30 kernels were rebooting
during startup on my machine, including boot disks. I haven't tried
them recently to check. The buzz boot disks lock up on a pretty straight
forward machine I built recently, probably due to hardware probes
killing NE2000 etc.
Hamish
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