RE Beta cds

[Riga, Anthony]

I just grabd a p3 450 asus p2b mobo. I had mo issues with the install but I did using the beta. There is no icon for cdrom/dvd and my control panel dosent work. I am goin to try a reinstall. Not really sure about it yet. I will say I dont like the defaults. I like the 8.0 defaults much better but this is beta so I think there will be alot of changes.

-----Original Message-----
From: peter [mailto:pvant67 at wnyip.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 8:16 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: RE Beta cds


Riga, Anthony wrote:
> Pete I downloaded the beta and installed it on a pc. If you dont suceede with the download or you dont feel like dealing with the iso's  I will pick the cds up from work and drop them off you to burn copys just let me know.
> 
> 
I've got a spindle blank cd's if you could spare it... or even just 
valid ISO's, I've got a fast burner. Maybe at the next meeting?

I've rebuilt the kernel and modutils from source using the RH8.0 
glibc... no problems, but no speed either. Hence, the difference is in 
the glibc, which corresponds to the errors I was getting, such as:

"GLIBC: <command> :TLS :not found or unrecognized symbols"

I could come up with an (unqualified) analysis of this in a few days, 
I've got the development docs. It *is* beta, after all.

So I'm back online again with plain 8.0 and I followed the thread about 
getting the beta after I made that comment about it. I got the binary 
RPM's from dulug.edu. I have to wonder, did I get something bad? I 
didn't use the MD5, maybe that was my mistake. *sigh* I guess it's time 
to start using MD5... it's not like you can trust anything anymore. I 
favor distro.ibiblio.org (AKA metalab AKA sunsite) but you can't even 
get in there anymore, max users reached.

Question: How is the beta install (Anthony?) on your PC? What hardware 
does it have? Should I keep trying on my Intel SMP box?

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