slackware 10.2 woes

[Kurt Wall]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:07:39PM -0500, Net Llama! took 26 lines to write:
> 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.

Understandable. I spend a lot of time building kernels for testing and
evaluation purposes these days, so beyond wanting "more memory, a faster 
CPU, and a pony" for Christmas, anything that avoids even 1 kernel
compile is welcome.

Kurt
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