[741] in RedHat Linux List
4.0 Install - basically clean
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Forrester)
Thu Oct 24 12:50:48 1996
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:48:27 -0700
From: Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>
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The System:
System Hardware Description:
1. ASUSTeK P/I-P55TP4XE motherboard with 256Kb pipeline burst mode
cache.
2. 64Mb 60ns EDO RAM.
3. Buslogic BT-948 SCSI Adapter.
3. Quantum Atlas XP32150 2.1Gb SCSI drive
4. Quantum Atlas XP32150W 2.1Gb SCSI drive
5. Seagate Hawk 51080N 1Gb SCSI drive
5. Toshiba 6X SCSI CDROM drive, XM-3701TA
6. Iomega Zip, SCSI, Rev C.18 - external
7. Intel P5/75MHz CPU
8. ATI Graphics Xpression CT264 card with 2Mb DRAM
9. ViewSonic PT770 17" trinitron monitor.
10. U.S. Robotics Sportster 28.8 modem.
Comments:
1. Installed on /dev/sda3. Wiped & reformatted partition. No real
problems during install.
2. Cursor should be turned off while install program is running.
Cursor sitting to the right of the buttons looks tacky.
3. With all those disk partitions out there, why does the fsconfig
tool in the control panel have all of them listed as "ignore"? They
were correctly identified as linux native. What made it really
annoying was that I could not change the fs type from ignore to ext2.
(at lease, _I_ couldn't 8^) In any case, I quit there, edited the
/etc/fstab file, changed type from ignore to ext2 & all is basically
well, now.
4. Sendmail hangs for a _LONG_ time during boot process. Seems to be
trying to access network, even though I specified there isn't one.
Stand along machine with modem access due "real soon now". Need to
RTFM for sendmail, I guess.
5. MetroX: I'm still not real impressed. Maybe I missed it somewhere,
but there doesn't seem to be any simple way to tailor it to my monitor,
which isn't in the database. As mentioned above, I've got a Viewsonic
PT770. So I end up with only 1024x768 max resolution at any color
level. XFree86 allows customization to my monitor & goes to 1280X1024.
When I shift to an MGA Matrox Millenium 4Mb card next month I hope to
be able to step to 1600x1200 (I do some image processing work). Still
seems that MetroX isn't there. Sad. I expect a bit more with a
commercial X driver than the XFree86, but given the new configuration
utility for XFree86, I don't see the improvement.
6. Suggest more granularity in future install programs. Something on
the order of:
minimal - enough to get running, compile c,c++,objective-c, install
more
RPM's etc. No X, no network.
standard - no network card. All reasonably useful stuff, but
configured
properly for stand along operation with modem support. Leave out
the devel stuff.
standard - with network card. As above but with network support.
development - Standard + development stuff.
kitchen sink - install _EVERYTHING_.
This would perhaps save support some time & this mailing-list a bit
of traffic. Might prevent problems such as I mentioned with sendmail,
etc.; you could run different levels of configuration for each level.
All in all, a good effort. I'll try to get the errata file d/l'd today
& clean things up a bit tonight. Suggestion: run a contest to design &
submit a new Red Hat standard X configuration. Use parameters of
things such as:
a. Standard environment components only; no customized/patched code.
b. All components included in tar or rpm vol needful to make that
setup work.
Then let your users pick a default & a set of others to be made
available. Prize might be a copy of the archive CD set.
By the way, swisswatch makes a neat screen clock. I'm biased - it
looks a LOT like the Victorinox Swiss Army watch I wear. 8^)
Best!
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