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List:       mandrake-cooker-ppc
Subject:    Re: unsubscribing
From:       Dave Smith <macdave () bellatlantic ! net>
Date:       2001-07-22 0:24:36
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Ditto that!

Usubscribe doesn't seem to work. I'm being flooded by emails that I really
don't need or want at this time. please correct this before it is reported
as abuse.

Thanks

Dave

> From: "steve" <cyberbase@ntlworld.com>
> Reply-To: cooker-ppc@linux-mandrake.com
> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 01:03:17 +0100
> To: <cooker-ppc@linux-mandrake.com>
> Subject: unsubscribing
> 
> DOES ANY ONE KNOW HOW I CAN GET OF THE COOKER..LIST PLEASE
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stew Benedict" <sbenedict@mandrakesoft.com>
> To: <cooker-ppc@linux-mandrake.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 7:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Swap activation problem
> 
> 
>> 
>> Thanks Guillaume,
>> 
>> OK, adapting for the presence of the "holes" was the only thing I changed
>> recently in the partioning, previous changes were for "OldWorld" machines
>> where the bootstrap is not appropriate.  The beta has none of these, so
>> the issue seems independant of them.
>> 
>> Can you list the partition table?
>> 
>> If you have the latest from the mirror, partition_table.pm should have
>> some code like this:
>> 
>> $hd->{primary}{normal} = [sort { $a->{start} <=> $b->{start} }
>> @{$hd->{primary}{normal}} ];
>> 
>> 
>> foreach (@{$hd->{primary}{normal}}) {
>> if ($_->{start} > $start) {
>> log::l("PPC: found a hole on $hd->{prefix} before
>> $_->{start}, skipping device...");
>> 
>> $i++;
>> }
>> $_->{device} = $hd->{prefix} . $i++;
>> $start = $_->{start} + $_->{size};
>> }
>> } else {
>> 
>> But it sounds unrelated to your problem.  When you made the subsequent
>> attempt, did you clear the partitions?  Perhaps the written partition
>> table is not "taking" and a reboot is required after writing the partition
>> table.  The code is supposed to account for this and tell you to reboot.
>> 
>> Thx,
>> Stew Benedict
>> 
>> --
>> MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/
>> PPC Faq:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&m=99441208917647&w=
>> 
>> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>> 
>>> Ainsi parlait Stew Benedict :
>>>> Holes in partition table?
>>> No
>>>> That problem is still present on the beta.
>>>> Your network install is the latest mirror stuff?
>>> Yes, unless the mirror ised (proxad.net) is out of synch.
>>> 
>>>> Does hda11 correspond to
>>>> the swap partition?
>>> Yes.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Guillaume Rousse <rousse@ccr.jussieu.fr>
>>> GPG key http://bohm.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/gpgkey.html
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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