RE: Newbie questions...

[Wysong Richard C SrA 85 GP/CP <Richard Wysong keflavik af mil>]

Wow, thanks. I'll try that. I'm still kind of wondering though...I always
thought linux was supposed to be more efficient than NT (I was thinking more
speed since it's 64-bit and all). I thought I'd get more processor power out
of linux...just not so? With 96 megs o ram, will it leap past NT with 96
megs?

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Champigny, Michael
[mailto:Michael.Champigny@compaq.com]
		Sent:	Monday, December 27, 1999 3:27 PM
		To:	'axp-list@redhat.com'
		Subject:	RE: Newbie questions...

		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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