Thanks for your insight!
I'll check on that 'bootable image' situation.
I regularly have my /boot mount point somewhere on /hda,
but the location of the bootable image 'may' be the
source of my error 0x01's.
Thanks,again!
-Larry
-----Original Message-----
From: zentara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 10:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Difference between SuSe 5.3 and RedHat 5.2?
"Yates, Larry" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've investigated both SuSE 5.3 and RedHat 5.2.
> I know each distribution has its own set of tools,
> but what particularly make SuSE vs RedHat?
>
> What are the internal differences?
>
> Do they depend on their own specific directory
> structures?
> If so, how do they differ?
> How compatible are they?
>
> For instance, LILO works OK with RedHat, but SuSE's LILO emits
> error 0X01's. The LILO.CONF's are identical and the kernal placement
> is identical. Why can't the same lilo.conf work for either distro?
> LILO itself is the same version...
I'm not certain on this but Redhat may be placing their /boot
directory as /dev/hda1. Which will make it always work. They
also like to put their bootable image in /boot instead of /.
So the bootable image is always under the 1024 cylinder limit.
I've had trouble with Redhat after using Suse for awhile.
It seems Redhat uses modules foe everything, and it isn't easy to
break out of their system. For instance, if you try to use the
standard linux 2.0.36 kernel with Redhat, you will get alot of errors
about "unresolved module dependencies". I also could not get my
awe32 souncard to work with Redhat. The kernel menuconfig seems to
"force" you to use OSSFREE, while I'm used to the standard way
of doing it under SuSe, that is applying the patch, and making my
own sound module.
I guess it depends on what you get used to.
-
To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the
archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
-
To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the
archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
