I have Redhat 7.3 (I have the first & second beta of redhat 8.0 too) all the way back to the 5.0 days... heck I have most of the distros back that many years hehe :) If you need a copy of 7.3 I can burn you one, and if you wanted someone to stop by your place and work on this with you I would be happy to offer my assistance with that too if you want. I have lots of blank CD-R and CD-RWs so don't worry about buying any of those, just let me know if you want to try a install of 7.3 (I would recommend it) or even if you want to wait till 8.0 comes out (Should be out in a week/week and a half or so). Redhat also added a mediacheck functionallity (I think it was in 7.2 but I could be wrong, it's in 7.3 for sure) which will also tell you if your CDs are good or bad burns. As long as you give me at least 2.5 hours advance notice on the CDs (I'm still using my old 4X external USB burner, so it takes a while to burn a CD :) I can burn them for you. If your coming to the next meeting I can bring them there for you or I can drop them off with you before then if you would prefer that. Let me know, I would be glad to help.
Later, Trevor Lauder Personal: WWW: www.thelauders.net E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: Manager of Linux Solutions WWW: www.lansolutions.ab.ca E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Mark and All: > > Thanks for your reply; > > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Mark Lane wrote: > >> First of all. Is there a reason you aren't installing 7.3? 7.1 is >> pretty old now and 7.2 and 7.3 are much more stable. > > I already have 7.1. Newer versions would either require a further cash > outlay or too much download time. Besides, once I downloaded it I still > wouldn't have a clue as to how to install it. > > 7.1 is running on a machine of mine at home and it ran on this machine > before a disk crash last August. It may not be the newest, flashiest, > sexiest version around, but it does work. I just need to learn enough > about it to make it work well, at least until I can justify an > additional cash outlay to the spouse. > >> Second. If you are running out of space on install, you are going to >> want to show us how big each partition is. "fstab" doesn't give that >> information and it could be that you haven't left enough room on one >> of your many partitions. > > No chance. Here are the stats reported by PartitionMagic after my latest > attempt to install Linux (Linux partitions only) in Mb. (Note: 2 disks) > > Partition Size Used Unused > > /usr 4141.7 2129.1 2012.6 > > /home 4141.7 65.3 4076.4 > > /tmp 4141.7 65.3 4076.4 > > /var 4141.7 109.2 4032.5 > > /scratch4 4133.9 65.1 4068.8 > > swap 125.5 0 125.5 > > > > > > > /boot 31.5 4.8 26.7 > > / 2283.7 100.9 2182.8 > > swap 126.0 0 126.0 > > > >> Also lots of people make the mistake of making /home really big and >> not leaving enough room for /usr and /usr/local/. I find that if you >> install a lot of apps that /usr can get very big and have seen systems >> where /usr usage is much bigger than /home. (Especially if they >> install lots of Loki games in /usr/local) > > Thanks for the tip. As you can see above, there's 2 Gb available for > /usr and its subdirectories. > > I've not installed any applications yet because I can't even get the > operating system to boot properly. Besides, I'm not the video game type. > :-) > > > Peace, health, wisdom and wealth. Live long and prosper. > > > Stan Schultz > Techno-Geek wannabe > > Home: (403) 230-1911 > Work: (403) 220-8570 > FAX: (403) 270-8928
