RE: Newbie questions...

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

I don't know anything about NT so I can't comment. But Alpha's are RAM
hungry...feed it enough RAM and you'll get nice performance.

/Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Wysong Richard C SrA 85 GP/CP
[mailto:Richard.Wysong@keflavik.af.mil]
Sent: Monday, December 27, 1999 10:38 AM
To: axp-list@redhat.com
Subject: RE: Newbie questions...


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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