[rhelv6-list] Fun with new RHEL

[Chris Adams]

So, what "interesting" things are people finding in the new release?  I
never had time to play around with the betas that much (didn't even try
a kickstart), so maybe these are known things.

- Installation numbers are gone.

- Default "server" install gets postfix instead of sendmail (don't see
  any mention of this in the release notes).  That's probably just fine
  for most people (I'm a sendmail guy, so I'll just add it to my
  kickstarts), but changing one of the few daemons that is started by
  default should be mentioned IMHO.

- My base kickstart doesn't work.  I create the filesystems in a %pre
  and then %include a chunk that defines them (doing it this way to get
  desired options for things like mdadm).

  Using some debugging, I see my LVs and filesystems are created, but
  then anaconda puts up a message about "examining storage devices", and
  the device nodes in /dev/mapper are all gone.  It only gets /boot (not
  on LV) mounted, so then it complains that "/" isn't big enough
  (because it doesn't exist).

  This is at least a couple of bugs:
  - anaconda kills the existing LV device nodes
  - anaconda doesn't notice that it didn't even mount a root filesystem

- Looking at the Red Hat site, the new pricing info has lowered the
  allowed guests for the base server product from 4 to 1 (for the same
  price).  Not cool.  Guess I'll keep my dev server host OS on RHEL 5.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.