"m.w.chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am sorry to say that Redhat's whole installation is less than trivial,
>esp if you compare it against the old Caldera product lines.
I'm sorry to butt in, but I've never had a REDHAT installations
heave like your mentioning here. Sounds like your installing on
the latest and greatest Pentium 4, with the ia-32bit verision, or
the CDROM your using is a dud.
Maybe you should try downloading the ia-64 version of WS 3.1.1,
and see if your problems 'magically' go away.
ia-32 and ia-64 is a architecture jump and despite what you may think,
hardware or the LINUX OS is not finicky. It does what it's able to
do, and nothing more. PERIOD.
With installation of both products, Redhat's is more functional,
and Caldera/SCO maybe is prettier, but as of RH 7.3/8.0,
and COL WS 3.1.1, the installs are almost the same except
for the logo's.
To me, it looked like CALDERA/SCO learned a lot from previous customer
complaints, and from installing either SUSE or RH.
There major differences;
- Caldera default install does not permit the installation of LILO,
they went strictly with GRUB; [ I can use both, I don't care ]
[ REDHAT, SUSE, can do both, under installer selection ]
- CALDERA/SCO as of WS 3.1.1 does a fairly limited inclusion of a
refined packaged installation management, a basic knockoff of
REDHAT/SUSE/SLACKWARE package management installation.
[ BUT hell, I was one of the customers that wrote and
complained about this when I went and bought
eDesktop 2.4 years ago ]
>Towards the end of the Redhat 8 installation process, it would suddenly
>complained about insufficient disk space or something, though I did
>allocate needed disk space using custom partitioning and the whole
>process just abended.
See above. Either your CDROM your using is hosed, or your using
some weird hardware that the kernel simply doesn't recognise.
[ SEE ATA-100 adapter/newer scsi adapter ]
That, or your using ia-32bit OS for a Pentium 4, in which case
you should be using the ia-64bit version of the very same
COL WS 3.1.1 OS.
It may save you tons of installation/troubleshooting time in
the long run.
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