Re: 7.1 is out soon

[Kalum / Grendel <kalum lintux cx>]

On  Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Thomas Dodd commented thusly,

> Kalum / Grendel wrote:

> > distro.
> 
> I have to disagree here. I'm putting together a Duron box
> for a friend. I installed RHL-7.0 on it to evaluate the
> motherboard's integrated parts (sound/video/NIC/Modem).
> 
> That install went very smooth. No problems at all.
> 
> Tried Win95. It didn't like the system at all,
> and wouldn't finish the install.

In all fairness Thomas, win95 is almost 7 years old, so this is not
surprising, for example I doubt whether any linux distro 7 years ago would
support your hardware config out of the box.  

RH 7.0 is not even one year old, so if you tried say Win ME or Windoze
2000 (the equivalent aged windoze Os's) and they failed then we can come
to a conclusion about the installation process.
 
> Tried Win98. The install completed, after 5 reboots.

Again it is a remarkable result that it completed the setup because the OS
is 4 years old.

> Then it booted an went to setup components
> (date/time/control panel/and such)
> Suddenly, I get BSODs. I still cannot get it to boot
> to the desktop correctly.

Is your computer overclocked or instable in someway? I ask this because on
some computers, especially those which are home built, even when they are
not overclocked they suffer from instability because of radiation from the
clock gen frequency, I once had a computer which I couldnt run at the
100mhz clock speed for long because it would become instable when it got
hot, but the problem was solved when I went to the bios and turned off the
"Generate Clock ticks for empty slots" option which was by default on.

These sort of instability problems are more often bought to light by
windoze than linux because of windoze's stresses the hardware more than
linux.

I allways make it a point whenever I build or buy a new computer to run 6
gcc processes in parellel for a long time, like say compiling Xfree86
4.0.x and see how the system handles it, if any ksymoops happen then there
is a problem somewhere..... 

Best Wishes,
Grendel


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