[WBEL-users] Whitebox respin 2 availability or instructions for DIY respin....

Erik Williamson erik@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Mon, 22 Nov 2004 06:37:57 -0700


Here's how John did Respin-1: http://whiteboxlinux.org/howto.html

Best,
Erik.

Gary Mansell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been waiting for the promised Whitebox respin 2 to be released
> for several months now but to no avail. There is a real problem with the
> fact that the current respin 1 disks will not install on a lot of the
> latest hardware mainly because of lack of SATA support. This is causing
> me major problems - I am being forced to do SUSE 9.* installs that I
> could really do without.
> 
> Can someone let me know when respin 2 will be available for download?
> 
> If not, has someone got some instructions on how to create a new CD set
> of my own. This can be just a "bodge" to get the OS installed, if that
> is the simplest thing to do. I presume that it will need a new iso linux
> kernel and the current install would need to be changed to install the
> latest kernel RPM at a minimum, the rest can then be updated manually
> after a reboot.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help
> 
> Gary Mansell