On 5/29/07 Easwar Hariharan wrote:
Hi, I am using Mandriva 07 installed from a LFY DVD.It's the free version. I have not used any other distro as yet coz I am still a newbie.
I don't trust LFY CD/DVDs.
Kartik Mistry wrote:
On 5/29/07 Easwar Hariharan wrote:
Hi, I am using Mandriva 07 installed from a LFY DVD.It's the free version. I have not used any other distro as yet coz I am still a newbie.
I don't trust LFY CD/DVDs.
This is speculation / knee-jerk reaction.. the OP needs to clearly communicate the symptoms and other observations before we conclude on whether its a rootkit OR bad media.
Easwar, see my reply to your earlier mail. Data doesn't get lost/overwritten randomly.. it is mostly pebkac.
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 13:47, Dhawal Doshy wrote:
Kartik Mistry wrote:
On 5/29/07 Easwar Hariharan wrote:
Hi, I am using Mandriva 07 installed from a LFY DVD.It's the free version. I have not used any other distro as yet coz I am still a newbie.
I don't trust LFY CD/DVDs.
This is speculation / knee-jerk reaction.. the OP needs to clearly communicate the symptoms and other observations before we conclude on whether its a rootkit OR bad media.
True. However LFY dvd's are of extremely poor quality. If the install runs behind a gui screen and or the user is a newbie, he is likely to miss errors and wind up with a not so proper install. eg using a file system without the fsck tools.
On 5/31/07, jtd wrote:
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 13:47, Dhawal Doshy wrote:
Kartik Mistry wrote:
On 5/29/07 Easwar Hariharan wrote:
Hi, I am using Mandriva 07 installed from a LFY DVD.It's the free version. I have not used any other distro as yet coz I am still a newbie.
I don't trust LFY CD/DVDs.
This is speculation / knee-jerk reaction.. the OP needs to clearly communicate the symptoms and other observations before we conclude on whether its a rootkit OR bad media.
True. However LFY dvd's are of extremely poor quality. If the install runs behind a gui screen and or the user is a newbie, he is likely to miss errors and wind up with a not so proper install. eg using a file system without the fsck tools.
Isn't there a mediacheck option when booting from the Mandriva DVD?
On 6/3/07, osric fernandes osric.fernandes@gmail.com wrote
Isn't there a mediacheck option when booting from the Mandriva DVD?
Surprisingly, no. I lost my entire installation once trying to update to Mandriva 2007 from Mandriva 2006, from a faulty LFY DVD. So that proves two points? Hmm?
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