[ltp] Enterprise Linux WS 3 vs. Fedora 0.95?

[Dan Sawyer]

Brig,

Where did you get the bits? I tried to find them but to no luck.

Dan

Brig C. McCoy wrote:

> When my notice came today that RH 9 support dies 30 Apr 2004, I 
> downloaded and tried to play with the latest Fedora 0.95 (severn) beta 
> on my TP 600x...
>
> md5sums matched, but when I ran mediacheck it said two of the three 
> discs were bad. Damn, re-burned them. Fail again. Hmmm.
>
> Dropped them into another computer (non-laptop), both discs pass 
> mediacheck fine.
>
> Checked the release notes for Fedora 0.95 and noticed the very last 
> kernel note: "The laptop mode support present in previous test 
> versions of Fedora Core has been temporarily removed due to reports of 
> data corruption on some IDE disk drives. If the cause of this issue 
> can be found (or laptop mode cleared of any role in the corruption), 
> it will be re-enabled in a subsequent Fedora Core Test 3 update kernel."
>
> Don't know if this is actually a reasonable cause, but the darn CD-ROM 
> drive's been reading everything else okay, and just read a 300MB file 
> okay.
>
> So, for now, the question becomes "Is anyone using RHELWS 3.0 on a TP?"
>
> (I figure it's too much to hope for someone using it on a 600x. :)
>
> ...brig
>
>
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