[argyllcms] Re: Linux test system
- From: "Andreas Schrell" <as@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:52:41 +0100 (CET)
Graeme,
hm, I never had problems with debian installation on desktops. I am using the
businesscard- or net-install. Notebooks gave sometimes problems with special
hardware. SATA HDs have been no problem and run out of the box. IDE and
SCSI-DVD(/RW) too.
Andreas
>
> I've been setting up a test box to be able to test and debug
> Argyll running on various operating systems, especially Linux.
>
> While many of the distributions have been relatively straightforward
> to get installed (the issue causing most problems being that
> some of the distributions don't seem to be able to handle more
> than 15 partitions on an IDE driver), a number of distributions
> have defeated me.
>
> Successes:
>
> Ubuntu 7.10
> Fedora Core8
> WhiteBox 4.2
> Madriva 2008.0
> OpenSUSE 10.3
>
> including 64 bit versions, Gnome and KDE versions.
>
> Failures:
>
> Debian 4.0 "Etch"
> Gentoo 2007.0
> CentOS 5.1
>
> CentOS seemed to trip over the SATA DVD drive
> and ended in a kernel panic. I gave up on that and loaded
> the WhiteBox version I'm currently using instead.
> (It's likely to be very similar to Fedora I imagine anyway.)
>
> After spending longer on them than all the other
> distributions combined, neither Debian nor Gentoo would install.
> Gentoo's configuration was too hard to fathom, with too
> little guidance or examples for a casual user, and even after working
> around various bad iso images, and wasting hours downloading
> archives over my 512K internet connection, it all ended with
> an obscure option error during compilation (unknown option
> "--no-gensplash").
>
> After countless attempts to load Debian, working around
> it's problems with SATA Hard Drives and DVD drives,
> the installs were never a success, hanging on
> accessing the root file system after install, or resulting in
> a partial install, missing various essential elements,
> and always reporting failures to install software components
> due to "failed Automatic printer Configuration".
>
> So until these distributions get to a state where a
> casual user (such as myself) is able to install them
> on currently available hardware (ASUS P5K-V intel
> motherboard so I can test intel, NVIDIA and ATI graphics
> cards, a SATA hard drive and DVD drives) without spending
> a week or more doing it, I'm afraid I won't be in a position
> to figure out the system specific install issues or
> bugs in running Argyll on these distributions :-(
> Whether this is of much importance, I'm unable to guess.
>
> Graeme Gill.
>
>
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