UDB disk definitely hosed
Hi all.
It's official...my UDB's Linux partition is definitely hosed. I don't
know what happened, but whatever it was really did a number on that
partition. After trying in vain to repair it with e2fsck, I finally just
started a fresh install.
Right now, it's about halfway through installing most of the packages I
need via dselect. Aside from a ton of dependency problems (I'm going to
write a script to check for this soon), everything seems to be going fine.
I do have two suggestions, though, for whomever is handling the base disk
stuff:
1. DNS lookups don't work even after configuring the network
2. Is it possible that we can have an ftp installation of the
base system? I had to ftp the stuff to my Intel and NFS-mount
the directory where I put it. Granted, I haven't checked to
see what it would take to do this, but it seems like a good
option.
3. Ok, so there's three suggestions :P We should consider going
back to the regular fdisk instead of cfdisk for reasons
outlined in a previous mail (bsdlabel stuff). I had that
on a back shelf in my brain until I saw the cfdisk screen
staring back at me during installation.
Anyway, let me get back to installing here and I'll keep ya posted.
Chris
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