[2259] in RedHat Linux List
Newbie Questions, BEWARE! :-)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John C. Norcross)
Fri Nov 1 18:06:45 1996
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 18:02:57 -0500 (EST)
From: "John C. Norcross" <jcn@swl.msd.ray.com>
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I just received my official REDHAT 4.0 CD and installed
it last night. I am brand new to LINUX, but I do have
a good general working knowledge of UNIX in that I use
it daily at work. Up till now I've been a devoted OS/2
user ( 4+ years going through 2.0 -> 2.1 -> 2.11 -> 3.0
and now running Merlin 4.0). I'm not exactly a novice,
but I'm am new to this LINUX scene.
Let me say so far, I am *very* impressed with LINUX.
As a complete outsider, I do have some observations and
questions concerning REDHAT & LINUX that I don't see
addressed in the FAQ.
To begin with, REDHAT 4.0 didn't see my SCSI CD-ROM :(
It took a visit to the errata file at www.redhat.com
to find out that a newer boot image is needed to get
LINUX to work with my Adaptec 2940UW...
OK, so I get past the install hurdle. I go through a
"Install Everything" session to a 500meg partition
which loads everything and then shutdown & reboot off
floppy as per the errata instructions to get the newer
copy of the floppy boot image kernal onto my new Linux
installation. Fine, I now and bring up Linux on my
new partition.
Every time I boot Linux, there are two very annoying
"pauses" that take place:
1) During the kernal load, the Adaptec 2940 driver says
something like: "Reseting SCSI Bus:" and then pauses
for a good 30 seconds before displaying a list of
all the attached SCSI devices. During this pause, none
of my SCSI devices act as if they are being probed...
(Why the long delay?)
2) Shortly after this, Sendmail is started up and then
a *really* long pause occurs - about 1-2 minutes in which
their is no hard disk activity. My machine is not
LAN connected (I told the REDHAT install this) and the
only thing I can think of is that perhaps I need to config
Sendmail to not look for whatever it's looking for! This
delay is unbearably long! (I've got a PPro 200Mhz with
128 megs of EDO ram)
I also get a line containing an error message concerning a
package missing something? (I'm at work, and don't remember
quite what it says...)
Another thing that seems very odd is that during the install
of MetroX, it doesn't let me config my color depth for my 4meg
Matrox Millenium to 16mill @ 1280x1024. Why not?
I thought 4megs was enough to support this res/color depth!
I really like the X window manager - very nice. What I didn't
realize, was that by running at truecolor depth, many apps
won't run! (Xdoom, Redbaron, etc...) Also, many packages that
were installed don't show up on any of the menus of the X window
manager!? (I guess they have to be manually configured...)
Lastly, I'm now attempting to rebuild my kernal to include such
things as sound support for my SB16ASP. When I type "make config"
or "make Xconfig" or "make menuconfig" from a term window, I get
an error message about it not being able to comply with a "rule"
or something like that? Any ideas?
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to read my ramblings. If you
do respond with any tips/pointer/help, I would be most appreciative!
Being a Linux newbie and posting all of this here to the list may
have annoyed some of you - don't worry, I don't plan on making this
a habit! ;) Everyone was a newbie once and we all gotta start
somewhere... please forgive me.
Thanks!
--John Norcross
Team OS/2
Team Linux ?
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