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Re: Another unhappy 3.0.3 to 4.0 convert: bugs, bugs, bugs.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Tue Oct 29 20:25:56 1996
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 15:50:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Kirill Shtengel wrote:
> 3. I've found how to intall it at last! The problem seemed to originate
> from the fact that I didn't want to make a swap partition. I used to
> share it with MS-Windows (always worked fine!) meaning that I had it on
> a separate DOS partition. So, the installation utility would notice the
> absence of swap, asking whether I really meant it, but then proceed
> further towards another crash some 20 min. later. After all I have
> enough memory fo all possible installation needs: 20M out of wich
> 16M are recognized without additional help from LILO (still plenty!).
> So, when I finally created a Linux swap partition, installation went
> fine. I don't want to bitch, but it took me an entire day to get through
> this step (20-30 min each time before it crashed again).
> This is certainly a 4.0 bug, because on one occasion I had to reinstall
> 3.0.3 and went smooth without anu Linux swap.
The 4.0 install had some memory leaks (which RPM has included since 2.0
but we never noticed). I've fixed this internally, and the experimental
disks in ftp.redhat.com:/ewt include this change.
> (I still think the RedHat guys are doing great job, unfortunately not as
> great as with Picasso though):
We changed a lot more then we did with Picasso. Red Hat 3.0.3 was basically
the third try at Red Hat 2.0, while Red Hat 4.0 is the first try at a new
generation of product. With the new install, kernel, and authentication
a lot was liable to break.
Erik
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