Re: UPDATE ON "WARNING ON RED HAT"

chris_at_nospam.com
Date: 04/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 04:29:41 GMT

>The problem (not MY problem) is that RH does not put out drivers for
>certain CDROMs any more. ALL of mine are non R-RW, i.e. old. Maybe that
>is the problem (but another guy said he had an old CDROM and it worked).

Just curious, are you using burned disks? I've had a few older IDE
(pre-cdr craze) cdrom units that could not reliably read burned disks.
The symptoms were that the RH install would randomly hang, typically
during package installs. Using different media and burning the disks
at 1x speed sometimes helped. Usually in this case, I either do a
network install or grab a newer one off the spares shelf.

>Well, now, a used computer I picked up yesterday for $50 installed RH EL
>just fine. So, at least when the CDROM drivers are there, and there is no
>hardware compatibility problem, and there are no defects in the CDROM
>disk (I've had these, too), then you might get an installation.

All ide cd-rom drives should use the same driver. Thats why I
questioned whether you were using IDE drives, vice a proprietary older
interface which would require unique drivers. It would not surprise
me if RH dropped support for antiquated interfaces under the
assumption that someone willing to pay for RHEL would be running it on
newer hardware.

>And, the disclaimers on the box are poor. And, the instruction manual has
>a lot of errors in it as well as poor explainations. I say this after
>having read many 800-1000 page books on Linux.

I've only read an RH manual once to figure out what switch I need to
use to disable USB probing. It wasn't listed and I had to use Google,
so I completely understand your comments about poor documentation.
It's worse than some other distros, but certainly better than MS.

>Yes, I 'play' with my computers as well as use them to do gainful
>employment. Now, what is YOUR history of experience?

I've been a network admin since 1995 on various MS, hpux, solaris,
sun, and RH systems. I also use and tinker with computers
recreationally. Sorry if my comment came off sarcastic, it wasn't
intended that way.

-Chris

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