[763] in RedHat Linux List
Re: 4.0 Install - basically clean
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (W.D.McKinney)
Thu Oct 24 14:25:11 1996
From: "W.D.McKinney" <deem@deesign.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:48:15 -0800 (AKDT)
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Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
Good point. Same here on my stand-alone sys.
> 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.
>
After I changed files for the dial-up networking, this went away.
> 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.
That's why I run Accelerated-X.
>
> 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:
Good Idea. Errata is important.
>
> 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^)
How about giving birth to a rpm of it ?
Best regards
-Dee
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