Verne Anaconda Antisocial Behavior

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R]

This time I zeroed the partition table with Linux Mint 12 RC and made 
partitions
for FreeDOS, swap and root.   Mint on a 1 GB 300 MHz Pentium III is not 
a pleasant
experience.  Think molasses and quadratic.  I installed the GPIB files 
but couldn't
figure out how to make them work.

I then burned 32 bit F16 onto a DVD+R.  The computer would not boot the DVD.
I then tried a DVD-R.  Still no boot.  After installing F16 via pxeboot 
I checked both DVDs
with dd and both read the full disc without reporting errors.

This time Anaconda was well behaved.  I installed F16 software dev.  Not 
too quickly, but definitely faster
than a mole in granite.  I installed kernel-dev and was able to install 
Linux GPIB from the source tarball.
I edited gpib.conf for my board, issued a modprobe pc2_gpib and voila! 
ibtest worked.

I do not recommend a 1GB 300 MHz Pentium III for modern Linux, but it is 
the fastest thing I have
that doesn't lock up when the GPIB board is installed.   (Now I have to 
RTFM the counter manual).

On 11/11/2011 05:25 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> I prepped an old 20 GB IDE drive with a 500 MB FreeDOS partition.
> Anaconds 25 refused to use this disk unless it wiped out existing
> partition table  (and FreeDOS with it).
>
> I prepped an old 18 GB IDE drive with 500 MB of FreeDOS and loaded
> Xubuntu 10.10 on the rest using manual partition.  Xubuntu cheerfully
> installed alongside FreeDOS and even generated the Grub2 commands
> for multiple booting.
>
> I think Anaconda's greed will provoke a number of flames.
> First the Emperor's GUI and now this.
>

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Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R     caf at omen.com   www.omen.com
Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications
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