RH9 Install Problems 040416a (gs response)

[Gene Sears (MUMC)]

Hi Stuart,

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) >
) see comments below about other editors, if you need them... I hate EMACS
) as well, but
) that's an entirely different flamewar :-)

OK

)

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) but is less common now, particularly with Linux boxes. If you mean the
) command-line
) approach when you say 'this level of software' - well in many ways
) that's the nature of the beast.
) The command line is the center of the linux Universe...

I won't respond to that now, I said it would be a fair trial.

)

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) Actually as I see it -your linux system is actually installed correctly
) - there are two remaining issues
) - the up2date thing, which will pretty much stop working at the end of
) April anyway (RH9 hits end of life then),
) and X.
) You appear to have a fully functional command line and the other items
) ought to be fixable. It depends on
) whether you still feel inclined to struggle with them!!

Sure, maybe this is like owning a 1950s MG or eating Tequila worms.  After
you struggle through a few in-the-rain refusals to run, you tell people you
like standing in the rain with the bonnet up.  I won't try to discuss the
worms any further.  Maybe I got that out of my system for a while.

)
) >  None of the foregoing is intended to be a reflection on you.  Your
) >suggestions have all made sense to me, the fact that so far I
) haven't been
) >able to bring any of them to fruition is not your fault.
) >
) >
) Thanks. But I still want them to work. I hope your experience thus far
) hasn't put you off completely.
)

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) That really depends on whether you want to pay for it...
) RHEL is a purchase-only option - you pay for the RHN and Support
) contracts that come with it,
) although I have a copy and RHN subscriptions through work, so no support
) contract (boo hoo).
) The binary versions of the software are not available for download,
) although the source rpms are.

I'd have to be a LOT HAPPIER than I am now to put any cash in this!

)

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) Fedora is more or less what RH10 would have been if they had decided to
) go that route.
) It is freely downloadable in binary form and contains almost exactly the
) same software as RHEL3 does
) - some of it in later, more 'bleeding edge' versions. the kernels for
) Fedora are usually more
) recent than those for RHEL. Fedora Core2 is due out shortly (the Roadmap
) suggests May 17 for
) the final release version. I'm looking forward to it. Some of the
) additions look quite exciting. )
) <note to self> Get out more.</note to self>

Get out more what, Oh' you mean OUT.  Is the something really out there, or
is that just a metaphor for the other side of the door?

) see http://fedora.redhat.com for details.
)
) As a home user, I would probably plump for Fedora, as opposed to RHEL,
) especially if you are
) simply trying it out. Besdies, RHEL is *expensive* for home use...
)

If RH9 gets better I may go there...

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) yes, I see it. the rpm -Fvh didn't work then?
) you _were_ in the same directory as the up2date-...rpm files, weren't you?

Seems like RHN said do it as root from /root, so, probably not.  I'll try it
from the /spool/ folder.

)
) >I also attempted the edit of the /etc/X11/XF86Config file.
) Everything went
) >fine until I tried to save it, first it asked if I wanted to
) overwrite the
) >existing file, I said yes, then it paused for a while, then said no, the
) >file was also open in another buffer.  It then became
) disagreeable and I had
) >trouble getting out of VIM, but that may have been a screwup on my part.
) >
) >
) if you're not entirely happy with vim, you can always use pico -w
) instead... (the -w turns off
) automatic hard line-wrapping which can break config files)

I'll try out the "pico -w", and send you the "/etc/X11/XF86Config file" too!

)
) my offer still stands on the XF86Config file - send it to me off list
) and I'll see what I can do if you like!
) ie - what resolution do you want it to work in, what monitor you
) have etc...


Gene