On 4/16/07, Joe Gilmour <jgilmour@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
Sorry for the late reply.
Ouch... i feel good without this word -> "sorry" ;-)
If your existing install uses hda3 then you may have your bios set up to use ide mode (or something like that). Also the cd rom would be the first disk if it's installed and you're using SATA.
i have resolved the issue. it had to do with "VIA PATA" driver which was not enabled by default. i learnt that from Gentoo,the one i am using now. CRUX lacks documentation. i think documentation need to include some information on compiling the Linux kernel. as an example. how about telling this in documentation: - frame-buffer modules - enabling "udf" support and compiling "jfs" or "reiserfs" support as built in and why so. - using "ALSA" rather than OSS (deprecated) i know all these because it took me 7-8 installations from scratch before i finally installed Gentoo. Documentation did awesome help.
I love CRUX for the same reasons. I learn a lot and I find I have more control over what's going on. I have been looking at Debian a bit lately though because I need 64bit for my database server.
i love the word "simplicity" and that ties very closely to the design of CRUX. i am using Gentoo now only because it has lots of documentation and earlier with CRUX 2.2, "prt-get" failed to handle dependencies, don't know why :-( -- http://arnuld.blogspot.com/