[WBEL-users] Re: updates

Bob Ramstad rramstad at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 13:34:02 CDT 2005


Jake Grimmett <jake.grimmett at nimr.mrc.ac.uk> wrote:
> I have not seen any updates to Whitebox 3 since May 13, and wondered if there
> was any problems with the mirrors ( I use esat.net) - or if it's just that
> John Morris is *really really* busy.
> 
> If you are busy John - then that's OK.... in your own time :)

I saw the same thing, I believe John was doing something minor (LOL)
like getting married and on a honeymoon...

It did end up though that because of delayed updates I ended up making
the decision to migrate from WBEL3 to CentOS3 as some of the newer
updates ended up being critical for some recently modified production
machines...  we added some hard drives attached via Sil3112 SATA and I
was experiencing data corruption with the most recent WBEL3 kernel.  I
was able to find a sata_sil patch but it wouldn't patch using the
"patch" program against WBEL3.  I ended up downloading a CentOS3
kernel which was a lot more recent, patching using "patch" against
that, and had no further problems with data corruption (knock on
wood).  Rather than leaving my systems in a weird bastard state with a
CentOS3 kernel and everything else WBEL3, I bit the bullet and had a
very painless transition over to CentOS3.  YMMV.

-- Bob



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