Greetings again,
On Saturday 10 August 2002 14:26, David Oberbeck Wrote Thusly:
> Todd,
>
> Again, many thanks for your response.
>
> Tried what you suggested, (unhappy) results below.
>
<snip>
I'm following up on my own post. The problem is solved, but not the
way that is going to go over well on a Mandrake List...
Firstly, my thanks to Mr. Lyons for responding earlier with helpful
suggestions.
Skipping forward to the conclusion: this problem / incident points
to a serious problem with Disk Drake on this platform (Compaq DL360
with Smart Array 5i RAID controller). These problems do not exist in
Red Hat 7.3 Professional.
The Story:
In an act of frustration, I broke down and purchased a copy of Red
Hat 7.3 Professional. To my surprise and delight RH 7.3 installed
without any problems whatsoever (by this point I was beginning to
suspect hardware problems).
Red Hat's Disk Druid came up with (from fdisk, with mount points
added in parens in the last column):
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 13 53024 83 Linux ( /boot )
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 14 1845 7474560 83 Linux ( / )
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 1846 3351 6144480 83 Linux ( /usr )
/dev/cciss/c0d0p4 3352 4357 4104480 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) (n/a)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 3352 3853 2048144 82 Linux swap ( n/a )
/dev/cciss/c0d0p6 3854 4104 1024064 83 Linux ( /tmp )
/dev/cciss/c0d0p7 4105 4355 1024064 83 Linux ( /var )
So, as much as I hate to do this (especially after strongly pushing
Mandrake over Red Hat to the client), it looks like I'm going to have
to:
(a) eat crow,
and
(b) bail on Mandrake for this client (who is going to use a
lot of these Compaq boxes)
unless someone comes up with a brilliant solution and/or incredible
flash of insight between now and Monday morning US mountain time.
For completeness, after RH 7.3 was running I went back and tried to
re-install Mdk 8.2 ProSuite, without deleting any of the partitions
created by Red Hat. I was able to interactively re-format each of the
partitions *except* the swap partition, which gave the same
uninformative error dialog:
"An error occurred.
Swap area needs to be."
Ergo, something is very honked in in Disk Drake re swap partitions
on this hardware platform.
Arrgh.
Also found that Mdk 8.2 does not have built-in support for the dual
BroadCom 5700 1 GB ethernet adaptors, RH 7.3 recognized them out of
the box.
So, Red Hat 7.3 it (probably) is.
Regards,
David
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