[Frugalware-devel] Re: Hard drive

[Miklos Vajna]

hello,

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 06:57:08PM +0200, Francois Biot <francois.biot at grosbill.com> wrote:
> Hello Vajna

my forename is Miklos if that counts :)

>    I'm still here, enjoying frugalware everyday, and trying to convince people 
> around me to use it (2 people last month lol). How are you doing ?

thx, regarding Frugalware - being busy with bugfixes for 0.7 :)

> 1/     I tried to install a frugalware for my company, in order to get rid of 
> the Suse distro. I want to install frugalware every where, instead of 
> mandriva and suse. I did already that for 3 internet pc of our shop.

nice to hear :)

>   The problem for each of them was that it was impossible to install from an 
> usb cdrom. Did I miss something ? I thought it was planned for frugalware 
> 0.7 ?

could you check what is the type of your cdrom? maybe we don't have that
driver in the setup environment. or if that is easier: just check if the
device node is created for the cd or not. like: if the device is
/dev/sr0 in the installed system, switch to tty2 by pressing alt-f2,
then see if /dev/sr0 exists in the setup

> 2/   The second most important problem I had was with pacman :
> because install from usb cdrom is impossible, I've unplugged the hard drive in 
> order to install with another PC (pentium).
> When the hard drive was back into the initial PC (amd), pacman was unable to 
> upgrade packages.

this should work, as long as the system boots (ie you should update
menu.lst and fstab if the hard drive was hda and it became hdc or so)

>   Pacman failed during packet checking...

could you please copy the error message?

> Once back in the pentium PC, pacman worked well, without downloading again 
> packages....
> 
> Apart of that, everything works pretty well.

maybe this is a typo, how can it work well if it "works" without
downloading packages? :)

> My idea is that package checking differs from one PC to another one....
> 
> Have you any idea ?

if this is the 'checking package integrity...' message, then it would be
good to check the packages manually. example:

$ pacman -Si octave|grep ^SHA
SHA1 Sum          : b508a7ac133f8e053ba40ad71a3a272cb6079290

$ sha1sum /var/cache/pacman/pkg/octave-2.9.14-1-i686.fpm b508a7ac133f8e053ba40ad71a3a272cb6079290
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/octave-2.9.14-1-i686.fpm

do you have such matching values, too?

> 
> 3/ By the way, I'm thinking about one point,
> Since I always want to support frugalware, as I did with HD donation, I may 
> ask my boss if it's possible to help you donating some money against some 
> services, such as quick support or things like this pacman problem or usb 
> boot installation, when I cannot make more (in these two cases, I could work 
> around the usb problem, but the pacman is severe, because once installed on 
> their sites, the distro could not be upgraded...)
> 
> Do you think working this way is possible for the frugalware team ?

i think yes - i'm not sure what was the situation when we last
contacted, but we finnally have a paypal account, so donating money
should be now easy. we spend money for things like buying video card for
maintainers to test drivers or finally there is some project money to
pay hdd failures, etc.

> The overhead will be low, because I can work a lot before sending you 
> requests, and I'll try to ask only things that make frugalware better, not 
> just for us, but for all (Install from usb cdrom is a known issue).
> 
> What do you think of all that ?

yes, i'm completely aggree. i would suggest you to subscribe to our
"devel" mailing list (i'm ccing this reply to there), so that when
others have better ideas, they can help you, too

thanks,
- VMiklos
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