[olug] Red Hat upgrade question

[Jazz Lover]

I would like to address a couple of different questions here.

First off, I have never been able to successfully install on my current
server using the standard install method.  The motherboard that I use is an
old 486.  I've been using this machine for my Linux server since about 98.
I first started with RH 5.0, and have slowly upgraded.  As far as using 6.2,
wells lets just say, that upgrading isn't high on my priority list.  I do it
when I get around to it.

Anyway.  When I attempted to install, using a cd, the install always craps
out with a signal 11.  I remember reading somewhere that that was do to
autoprobing my hardware.  I have always used expert mode to install my
distribution.  I did try installing the standard way, and it did find my nic
card, and I was able to reach the ftp site, but it still crashed with a
single 11.  That means, I still need to do it the expert way.

I'll do some more research on that README file to see if I can't figure out
how to get those drivers.

Second issue.  Yes, I guess you can call me an "enthusiast".  I am not a die
hard Linux fan.  I am a Sun/Solaris fan.  I have been in the Unix field for
about 10 years, using different Unix platforms.  Sun/Solaris is what I
prefer.  I use Linux at home, but I don't think that it has a place, just
yet, in the corp world.

My biggest issue with Linux is that its very aggravating.  When I install
something, whether it be a software package, or OS, I want it to work right
the first time.  With Linux, its always something to get it to work.  For
example, this upgrade.  I have to pull my hair out trying to figure out how
to get it to see my drivers.  Another example, was last year when I finally
decided to go with @home.  Cox requires DHCP.  I couldn't get DHCP to work.
I was using pump, and I had everything configured correctly.  Found every
piece of documentation that I could on the subject.  I learned that I had to
put my host name in one of the config files.  Okay, but it still didn't
work.  So I went static.  That was until Cox changed my IP about six months
ago.  Then during my trouble shooting, I discovered, that the startup script
wasn't passing my machine name like it was suppose to.  So it never was
sending the machine name when it was requesting the IP.  I've never had
these types of issues when working on a commercial grade Unix distribution.

Now, not knowing any one of you, I'm sure that I've offended some out there.
I want to apologize right now, but my opinion comes from many nights of
pager going off at three in the morning.  I prefer to have a OS that I know
that if I do get paged during the night, or on off hours, that I'm not going
to have to struggle to get it resolved.

thanks

Daryl Rose
jzlvr at home.com





----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Roberson" <roberson at bstc.net>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] Red Hat upgrade question


> trust me, I know what you mean exactly... specifically a company by the
name
> of dialogic, but from the aptitude of the questions being asked, I could
> tell that we are not talking about a corporate user, rather an enthusiast,
> which is why I asked the question. my real point was that RH6.2 is not a
> real good starting point for a first, or near to first time user.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Walter" <waltern at iivip.com>
> To: <olug at bstc.net>
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 8:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [olug] Red Hat upgrade question
>
>
> I still use Red Hat 6.2 quite extensively, but I use Linux in a different
> context than most of the members of this list I imagine.
>
> I'm a sysadmin for a company that has been phasing out Unixware 2.X.X in
our
> servers and products and replacing it with Red Hat.  Because of driver
> availability and development cycle time for products,  we have to pick an
> O/S and version and stick with it for several years at a time.  We last
> standardized 9 months ago, on Red Hat 6.2.  Now our telephony products
will
> probably be shipping with Red Hat 6.2 for the next few years :)
>
> The moral of the story is that in the corporate world there a lot of
people
> who aren't using the latest and greatest (and possibly unstable or quirky)
> versions of Linux.
>
> Nick Walter
> Interact Incorporated
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Brian Roberson
>   To: olug at bstc.net
>   Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 7:28 PM
>   Subject: Re: [olug] Red Hat upgrade question
>
>
>   > I wasn't able to find a modules image.  I looked on the ftp site that
I
> plan on using, and also on my current 6.2 cd.  Neither had the image that
>
> you mentioned.  The closet that I came was a driver.img.  Same thing?
>
>   yes, checkout the README in that same directory. redhat 6.2 is rather
old,
> why may I ask are you using it?
>
>     >> have you tried to autodetect the nic?
>     > No I have not.  How do I do that?
>   dont go into "expert" mode and It will do it for you automatically
>
>
>
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