That's what I've done if I need to repair a 9.1 installation -- I boot from a 9.0 DVD or CD to repair problems...just a pain to have to keep both sets on hand and something that completely took me off guard when I first tried installing 9.1 on a friend's, now, ex-window's machine. Same friend still has some problems with his Xircom 10/100/modem card only speaking in 10Mb/s and occasional network hangs -- that he was solving by doing the windows thing: rebooting. Oivey! But trying to tell him about command line /etc/init.d/network restart or pcmcia restart (or whatever the problem was), was a bit too much for him. Sigh. I really hate to say it, but it seems Linux is becoming more like Windows in some of the not so good ways in some HW configs (though my main server is usually more reliable). Such a pain now that they've eliminated the stable tree and turned it into a development tree -- I used to like to run specially config'ed kernels/platform -- especially for my friend's laptop -- an old 266MHz PII w/192Mb memory (20G HD). He uses it with a kde desktop but kde doesn't seem to have easy ways to say "please use a minimal amount of memory and CPU". At least compiling for x686 would be a step up from x586 -- 586 was the worst fit for a x686 machine according to the gnu compiler people -- even x486 was optimized better for a i686 than the i586 -- seems like i586 was a odd-out architecture for optimizations. How many people run Pentiums w/o MMX? As I understand it, Pentiums w/MMX had the x686 core though not many were made... -l Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 05:58 PM 11/24/2004 -0800, you wrote:
t I see, what I read here, and my own experience--see my "I'm Tired" in the past week's mail--if you could find a copy of 9.0 you might be OK, but I don't think you want 9.2, and probably not 9.1. If _I_ knew where there was a copy of 9.0 I might try it. --doug
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