RE: Newbie questions...

["Champigny, Michael" <Michael Champigny compaq com>]

The Mustang is slow because it's...er, because it's an old box. You need
more RAM to get respectable speed. I have 96M and it works pretty well
with that. I'd expect 97% mem usage with only 32M.

The kernel is in the /boot directory, so load it with:

sda5:boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-16

Make sure you install *all* updates for RH6.0 too.

For ethernet, edit conf.modules and set eth0 to be de4x5 instead
of tulip. 

/Michael


-----Original Message-----
From: Wysong Richard C SrA 85 GP/CP
[mailto:Richard.Wysong@keflavik.af.mil]
Sent: Monday, December 27, 1999 10:22 AM
To: axp-list@redhat.com
Subject: Newbie questions...


I finally got red hat 6 going on my mustang (4/233) and I am wondering a few
things...

1.	First of all, it's slow...waaay slow (compared to NT anyway). Under
gnome I brought up a system info thing and it showed 97% mem usage (32 megs)
and the only thing up was the system info window. I'm assuming something is
amiss. (The dos partition and linux native partitions are both 2 gig and the
linux swap is 127M)

2.	Where is the kernel? In the boot selection I have:
	      OSLOADOPTIONS=boot sda5:generic.gz root=/dev/sda7
	      Since I didn't know where it was, I put a generic.gz (same
avanti as from the cd)
	      kernel I pulled off the net on my 10M partition where I have
the winnt boot stuff. I tried some
	      stuff from /boot on sda7 and it didn't seem to work.

3.	My ethernet card no worky.  I get a [FAILED] during boot for
'Bringing up interface eth0'. During installation, it seemed to recognize my
card just fine, so I have no idea what's wrong. I gave it an ip address and
it can't even ping itself. I need to get the nic working first, but I was
also wondering if there are any special precautions if I'm running
serverless (peer to peer).

p.s. - I am a major novice and a dos junkie at that...

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