Hi Myles: Would you post the specs of the modem you have on your Sony Vaio, please? Thanks.
IM On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 00:21, Myles Green wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:29:44 +1130 > Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:18, Michael Scottaline wrote: > > > > > I recently installed RH 7.2 on a sony Vaio laptop (FX340). I'm > afraid I > > > had no problems, thus none to share. Absolutely everything worked > right > > > out of the box, NIC, video, audio, CD (burner and DVD, though I > haven't > > > tried in that mode yet). > > > > Mostly same here. It was an even better install than the 7.1 and I was > > > impressed enough with that: mostly due to kudzu / anaconda. A quick > note on > > a CD burner gotcha is that you *must* fire up xcdroast as superman > first > > (then as a mere mortal for evermore). Redhat/ kde have an unpleasant > habit > > of forcing kdesud (you keep typing your root password to do simple > things > > like kppp. Ditto cd burning.) There are ways of dealing with this, > detailed > > on the SxS site. > > I'm not having the kdesud problem here, for whatever reason. I just ran > xcdroast as root and setup my 'mere-mortal' user as a user of xcdroast > and I've burned *many* copies of RH7.2 to pass out at the college - as > 'me' not 'root' - since then. > > > --- > > I did a custom install on an old ext2 partition reformatted to ext3 > (by the > > installer). I strongly suspect that for the first time ever, if I had > chosen > > 'workstation' I _probably_ would have got exactly what i wanted and > saved > > myself a lot of finger picking. Redhat have dropped the 'powertools' > approach > > and supply dual cd's. This means that the days of 'install everything' > are > > probably over since there's now just too much stuff you'll never use. > You > > really do need to pick thru, or at best, use the workstation/server > type > > bundles. For hardened penguins, the Gentoo or Linux from Scratch > distros > > where you minimalise the lot is a better option. I was hoping for a > minimal > > install select on RH72 but didn't find one (unless you assume 'custom' > means > > just that). RH73, or for that matter SuSe 74 should look at that > 'feature', > > it's becoming a necessity. Once you install a kernel, an xfree, and a > few > > admin tools, that should be good enough to boot and do the rest later. > It > > took me over an hour to go thru each package I thought I wanted > *before* > > continuing the install, this is frustrating because (as we know), you > > generally install twice due to boo-boos. > > I did much the same for the first go around, except I kept it ext2 and > did an 'expert' install then chose 'custom' and selected the groups I > wanted. After about a week I nuked my win2k install and converted the > drive (40GB) to ext2 with a 1GB swap partition and the rest for /home. > This time around I nuked all the partitions from my original linux drive > (15GB) and made a 50MB /boot partition and the rest went to /, all > converted to ext3. > > > --- > > When partitioning (by whatever means), be *very* generous with your > swap > > space. The installer screams and screams if you have less than 2 x > ram. > > =) > > > Ditto my usb mouse. It auto detected correct make, buttons, and model. > Again, > > an impressive hit on how far usb has come (remember kernel 2.2.x?) and > again, > > not bad RH for integrating it. Still on the subject of usb, the pace > is > > furious. The /etc/hotplug directory contains more than 7.1 Again, this > > > is not kudos to RH but a comment that after what? 4 months? RH72 was > sorely > > needed to account for the rapidly expanding devices. 7.2 detected my > hotplug > > camera, 7.1 did not. You get the feeling that the dot com bubble > blowout is > > over, and it's back to business as usual where we all expect a distro, > any > > distro, to keep pumping the releases within a few months (just like > > "the good old days'). A few months ago most of us were despondent > about the > > Linux desktop, it seemed to have run out of steam. The RH72 release > serves > > notice on Windows that Redhat, at least, have picked up the cudgel and > are > > running hard. > > My USB mouse was detected as a 3 button, but there's only 2... not > really an issue ;) As a note, my keyboard (also USB) hasn't skipped a > beat yet under Linux, whereas win2k 'lost' it with alarming regularity. > I definately have to second the kudos to RedHat on this release, they > did an excellent job IMHO. > > > kudzu / anaconda gets betterer each time. This release, it autodected > my > > vibra128 (ensoniq). Rh7.1 had a series of common sound cards it > couldn't > > detect. The consequences of that lack is there was a lot of > > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ browsing. The big problem with sound is > a *lot* > > of post and pre-install statements are required in modules.conf for > nearly > > any sound card. I'm happy that kudzu figures them out because I can't. > The > > vibra128 is hardly a new sound card, but it's good that obviously more > > > common hardware is getting sorted. (I also installed RH72 on a system > with > > AWE64, sans problems, same results) > > I've installed it here and at the college with the same results. > > > Ditto, it detected that I had a cd-rw and correspondingly put the all > > important append= statement in lilo.conf. It gave the impression of a > few i's > > are being dotted and t's crossed. Ie some completeness in the install > process. > > well, it got my burner but missed the dvd in the append statement, I had > to add it but that's about all it missed. > > > ----- > > One gotcha carried thru from 7.1 is #@$)(&)$# paths. The bash script > gives an > > eminently sensible $home/bin directory. Ie, plunk whatever you want to > run in > > ~/bin. There is no ~/bin directory. You have to create it. > > yes, you do have to create it but isn't that 'normal'? > > > Similarly, there's a really irritating su. It retains your user > environment, > > it doesn't replace it with superman's paths. Thus, if you want to > lilo/ > > modprobe, or just about any other su thing, you have to > > > > /sbin/thing > > > > this is irritating. The fix is > > > > su (dash) > > > > it's a cure, but an irritating one. > > again, I thought this was normal?? > > > > > The printers available this time are hellishly impressive and > seriously > > lots but it falls over, badly, by giving you multiple choice cryptic > drivers > > for each type (hp laser4 eg). Unless you've been there previously, > there is > > no way of discovering what an STC500UP.DLL is (epson 400 if you ask). > You > > select and pray. Printing in Linux is a continuing and unecessary pain > in the > > rectum, they just made it harder. Again. > > I had no problems by using the "kde control-panel" (not that one, a > different one) which is just like it's windows counterpart in that there > is a printer-setup selection along with network and internet and > services etc... > > > I've claimed previously that RH stole the install process directly > > from Caldera COL 2.2. That was *the* benchmark of how to do it > properly. Col > > 2.2 pulled Linux out of the grunge ISP market and into the user's > home. It > > inspired Corel and TurboLinux. RH saw the light so to speak when they > > followed in with KDE as the preferred desktop, It seems that RH have > gone > > further by selecting Grub as their preferred boot loader. (Truthfully, > I > > can't see the point behind that). > > I don't like squirming bugs... > > > ----- > > The readme notes are WORTHWILE. There's a lot of interesting > information you > > can browse thru while waiting for the install to complete. Notably, > the heavy > > emphasis on Athlon processors, and, interestingly, the deprecated > items, Top > > of that tree is linuxconf! > > =) =) > > > -- > Myles Green Calgary AB Canada > Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: > http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
