[newbie] Interesting stuff from Redhat..

[Franki]

Hi all, I am toying with the idea of using this,,   It is the new beta dist from RedHat, I am thinking of using their patched 2.4.1 kernel, and glibc 2.2.1  to upgrade my 7.2.     Has anyone tried this on a LM7.2 install?     This is the Redhat blurb on the new dist…   The FTP is ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/beta/fisher/en/OS/i386/RedHat/RPMS/   What's new in this beta? General system improvements: Itanium(tm) architecture support is included Installer has many improvements and fixes, including basic firewall configuration Workstation installs are network-secure (services are off by default) Japanese support fully integrated Graphical kickstart configuration program included Core system components: kernel 2.4.0 + many fixes glibc 2.2.1 XFree86 4.0.2 XFree86 3.3.6 X servers included for maximum hardware compatibility KDE 2.1 beta release snapshot GNOME libs 1.2.8, core 1.2.4 GCC 2.96-RH Expanded hardware support: Improved USB IDE UltraDMA 66/100 IEEE1394 (FireWire(tm)) ATM networking WiFI wireless ethernet cards ESS Maestro3 and newer Crystal audio System service changes: New network-transparent configuration subsystem Configuration tools for BIND, Apache, and printing A sampling of package upgrades: GIMP 1.2.1 Tcl/Tk 8.3.2 BIND 9.1.0 Pine 4.32 Vim 6.0 prerelease XMMS 1.2.4 A sampling of Package additions: OGG/Vorbis audio encoder/decoder Mozilla   Just thought I’d ask to save myself grief..   Many thanx   Frank, Perth WA -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fekete Zoltán Sent: Saturday, 10 February 2001 4:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installation problem   Dear Experts !   I tried to install a Linux-Mandrake 7.2 from a Linux USER (de) CD-ROM. My BIOS is set up to boot from CD-ROM.   After CD-ROM initialization phase of beginning, unexpectedly an error message appears:   "Can't locate install2.pm in @INC (@INC contains:) at /usr/bin/runinstall2 line 24   BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/runinstall2 line 24 install exited abnormally   sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done umnounting filesystems /proc /tmp/rhimage /tmp/stage2"   The problem occured after installing a new AMD 6-III/450 processor, and a 128M PR100 ram module. The former Intel Pentium 233MMX with 64M (66 MHz) RAM, the same motherboard performed the installation without any problem.   Current configuration: AMD K6-III/450 at 450 MHz Tomato TX100 motherboard 128M PR100 DRAM 3 Dfx Voodoo 3 2000 PCI card 4X Sony Atapi CD-ROM drive Seagate 8,4 HDD with S.M.A.R.T. Creative Labs SB AWE 32 Onboard USB controller PS/2 mouse   AMIBIOS latest version for moteherboard installed.   WINDOWS98 runs bugless with new configuration!!!   Thank You for Your kind help in advance:   Zoltán, FEKETE