On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 12:45:52PM -0700, Alan wrote:
Just wondering if it is worth my time. (Since I will have to grab
the
cd ISOs instead of the DVD one I already have.)
The pci=off crash was fixed.
It would be nice to me able to use something other than Redhat 7.3 on
my
Sony Vaio 505ve. (Hacked far beyond warranty.)
RH8/9/FC1/FC2 should all work on it.
You need the pci=off just for the initial install to work around the vanishing
CD-ROM drive problem. Fixing that requires someone writes IDE controller hot
unplugging support for 2.6. That isn't trivial to do although 2.6 finally makes
it practicable.
Alan