hi ! more nagging :-)
i had a few friends complaining that RH6.2 would crash and hang while
starttnig X on SiS6215C and Trident cards (i am not sure ab the model)
whilst they worked on 6.1.
Caveat:2nd hand report
shourya
----- Original Message -----
From: Arnab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] A weird effect...
> I just want to add to whoever is having a great time
> with 6.2 is that I had another weird effect ...my
> Display card which is Trident 975 AGP and which was
> working great with redhat 6.0 was detected by 6.2 (as
> I was installing and not upgrading ) BUT then when
> running X for the first time it showed some problem
> with probing clockchip of the card and OH my god the
> whole system hang ....everything stopped responding
> .....I am not sure its really a display card's problem
> .....so I need advice from anyone who had a similar
> kindda problem b4 I go in for another card.
> .....
> arnab
> P.S: And yes Mr. D'Rozario I faced the SAME problem as
> you ...RH is eating some space for sure cause I tried
> installing it on a 502 Mb partition and the total
> package size which was reported 450 something Mb
> failed due to "insufficient disk space " !!!
>
> --- Ignatius Nayan D'Rozario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > I tried to 'upgrade' my RH6.1 to 6.2 using the PCQ
> > CD and it told me
> > that I needed 49 MB of space MORE... So I got rid of
> > the kernel, FAQs
> > etc. Next I again tried the upgrade. This time
> > around I was told that I
> > was short of 2Mb.
> >
> > So I got rid of some more stuff to have 87% of my
> > Linux partition
> > [/dev/hda2] full. "/" is here. But everytime I try
> > to do this with the
> > SAME options the DiskSpace reduces by 1% and I'm
> > told that there is a
> > shortage of 2Mb.
> >
> > What's the funda ? I figure that RH is making some
> > sorta backup which
> > fills up 10Mb or so everytime but WHERE does RH put
> > these gunk ? Or what
> > else can cause this effect ? I tried
> > tX-Mozilla-Status: 0009ot find a
> > solution ? I am including the df listing when the
> > disk is 89% full.
> >
> > Incidentally I have NEVER managed to get RH to
> > upgrade my Boxen. Is
> > there something that I am missing out ? I know I can
> > start of on a fresh
> > partition. But I REALLY want to know why the upgrade
> > path won't work...
> >
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