On Thursday 05 October 2006 19:25, Brian N. Smith wrote:
> > Brian might want to comment on this problem, as it seems to be an
> > issue with the CentOS installer on the instal CD, not with my actual
> > hardware.
>
> My comment.
>
> My installer may not work on your server, and if it doesn't buy me an
> identical server, and I will be happy to make it work :-)
>
> It honestly boils down to this. I am but 1 person, with a vastly poor
> collection of hardware. I have 1 server, and do all of my testing on
> VMWare.
>
> I can not test this CD on every single hardware platform out there,
> nor do I ever intend to. If you do not like that, I am honestly
> sorry. Send me a couple of thousand to buy the hardware! I have had
> roughly 4000 downloads of my v4.5 ISO, and I would say roughly 98% of
> them have had zero issues.
>
> Yes, there will be issues with hardware RAID. Why? My guess is that
> since it is installed via a Kickstart file, it doesn't detect RAID
> hardware properly. Can I fix it? No, I can NOT. Why can't I? I do
> not own every piece of hardware out there, nor do I know how to tell
> the kick start file to scan for everything. If someone wants to do
> some serious work on building kickstarts, send them my way, I will be
> happy to add them.
>
> As it states on my site, if you want "XYZ" piece of hardware to work,
> donate it to me. But, do not expect it back.
>
> There's my comment! and I am sticking to it!
>
> -Brian
but, but, why doesn't it work on my Verizon Blackberry with plugin flash
chip??? (( YES, I am joking)).
On the serious side, we can all work together, "feed" Brian and the others who
build the pkg's and stuff we love by letting them know what works, what
doesn't (nicely), and as a "community" end up with a much, much better
product....... or we can squabble, lose all the "good" people that work hard
for little to nothing, and go the way of the dodo bird.... Personally I like
to play with things, am not afraid of anything but my wife when she is in a
foul mood, and can program in as many languages as I need to.
My suggestion is to get a Knoppix CD, boot it several times and note what gets
loaded, it what order, and basically "follow" how it loads and then try to
feed some of this information back to the group. I would just about bet
between the lot of us, we can collectively figure out what is going on and
possibly how to "fix" it for the benefit of all...
--
Larry Smith
SysAd ECSIS.NET
sysad (at mark) ecsis.net