slackware 10.2 woes

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:00:45PM -0500, Net Llama! took 30 lines to write:
> > After poking around on the slack CDs, I found the 2.6.13 kernel-source
> > package on CD#2 and installed it and was all set.
> >
> > I'm calling this a bug, and moving on with my life.
>
> Fair enough. It's bitten me a couple of times, too. I just keep a copy
> of the 2.6.x sources and a known good .config around and build my own
> kernel after a fresh installation.

Yea, and that's fine if I wanted to use this environment long term.  By
for my purposes, I wanted to get the OS installed, test whether a bug in
the nvidia driver reproduces, and then move on.  Building a kernel would
have been a waste of time.


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