[aclug-L] Re: RedHat 7.2

[Ironrose <amccadden@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I found a lot of new stuff with Red Hat 7.2, grub instead of lilo, and I
still don't know how grub is different.  Mozilla instead of Netscape,
Modilla seems to not crash like Netscape did.  I installed 7.2 on a new
computer that I put together,1.4Athalon with 512mb of DDR-RAM, 32mb
video card with DDR-RAM.  I have had 2 lockups that I blamed on the new
hardware trying to settle in.  Seems to be working ok now.

Still trying to find out some of the new features that 7.2 has as well
as trying to learn MySQL.  ~Ironrose

Bruce Bales wrote:
> 
> Been hearing good things about RedHat 7.2, so I thought I would try it.  Made 
> some
> notes as I went along - they may be of interest to some of you.
> 
> First, it's a big down load, even with cable.  Two CDs worth, each is about 
> 650 MB.
> The mirrors seem pretty busy - best I could manage on the first disk was about
> 15KB/sec for over 12 hours.  Second disk I found a mirror running ~50KB/s and 
> got it
> D/Led in less than four hours.
> 
> They were both iso images so I made a couple of coasters before I figured out 
> how to
> burn a usable disk.  An iso CD is worthless.
> 
> Picked the 166MHz Pentium with 64 Meg, 1.6gig disk that had RH 6.2 on it and 
> tried
> to upgrade.  df with 6.2 on / was 889Mb and only 59% used before I started 
> and I
> thought it had plenty of room.  Asked if I wanted to change to ext3 FS and I 
> said
> yes.  Didn't have enough disk space.  First, RH says it needs at least 95MB 
> swap.
> Then it banged around for 20 or 30 minutes and said it needed 171MB more disk.
> There were no options on what to load or not load, so I went for a full 
> install.
> (The previous system was still intact, by the way.)
> 
> Install for a Gnome workstation with games and entertainment packages 
> defaults to
> 126MB swap and 48MB /boot and needs 1104MB disk - installed 475 packages.  
> Kernel is
> 2.4.7-10.  Ninety percent of the install was from the first CD, but you do 
> need the
> second one.
> 
> Probed for video card and got it right.  Couldn't probe monitor (it's and old
> Tandy).  After the install it went back to talking about probing the monitor 
> and
> came up with a pretty good 800x600 picture - just not quite in the center and 
> not as
> big as it could be.  Never did ask for hor. or vert. timings.  I'll work on
> XF86Config later.
> 
> The install was very easy - easier than 6.2.  On the install, it didn't ask 
> about
> ext3 so I suppose it converted to that.  Xwindows uses sawfish window manager
> (optional twm) - may change to windowmaker later.  Default to select anything 
> is two
> clicks (UGH! shades of Win95), but it is selectable.  df on / is 1015MB for 
> 74%
> used.  Should be room for opera and  a network card and maybe abiword.  
> (abiword
> requires 7.2 and is the main reason I decided to upgrade.)
> 
> Xwindows is pretty slow.  When I hit the "start" button it takes 19 seconds 
> to get
> everything up.  Click on documentation and wait 35 seconds before it is all 
> there to
> choose from.  Mouse action and even freecell were very slow at first, but 
> seem to be
> allright now.  Of course it isn't the fastest machine in the world, but 35 
> seconds
> to bring up a menu?
> 
> It has gimp, mozilla, glade, imagemagic, lots of games, and more I'll find 
> later.
> They got rid of linuxconf and netscape 4.X.
> 
> They give you lots of preferences on screensavers, desktops, and themes 
> (whatever
> they are), but this all seems like painting your attic - who needs it?
> 
> This may be wasted on most of you, but someone may find it interesting.
> 
> If one decides he wants 7.2, the CDs are worth the $39 RedHat charges - 
> unless you
> are retired.
> 
> bruce
> 
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