Robert M. Hyatt wrote:
>
> you ought to try the software first. I don't see how they could
> "not support" 6.0... it is primarily an upgrade to the 2.2 kernel,
> which you would want anyway. And I don't see any library issues
> that would make 6.0 not work. I run it everywhere here, although I
> am waiting on a cheapbytes 6.1 CD to arrive to try that...
Well, there *are* some library issues (we have had to get patches for
two of our commercial packages) to do with (IIRC) glibc2.1 vs 2.0.
> On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, John Rowan wrote:
>
> > Just received our new Gateway (ALR) 8200 series server this week. Aside
> > from Federal Express puting a fork lift through the bottom of the box and
> > ripping the pull rails off the hot swap power supply it's a nice box. Dual
> > PentiumII 450MHz, 128MB RAM and ADAC RAID card driving 4 9.1GB SCSI drives
> > in a RAID5 setup.
Wow. If that's the same box that the PC was in you're nuts to use it.
Don't you think the hard discs might have had their lives shortened a
little? God knows how much of a shock the system took when bits got
ripped off the case. Are you seriously using it? (tell me you're just
waiting for a replacement please ;-))
> > Is there any way to locate the drivers from the 6.x CD and copy them to the
> > floppy for a 5.2 install? Also, since 5.2 doesn't do SMP as part of the
> > install what can I do to get 5.2 to install with SMP as the default rather
> > than having to learn how to recompile the kernel?
It's not all that traumatic to recompile the kernel - esp. if you use
the RedHat kernel RPM and just change the SMP option (nothing else
except maybe the processor type). That way, the RedHat defaults should
get used for everything else and it should just work. A minor drawback
with that approach is that just about every bit of code in the kernel
will get compiled but what the hell... Do read the README and do
remember the "make modules modules_install" bit at the end.
Neil
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