Derek asked if anyone had it yet
I downloaded, and burnt, and installed
used an old 8gb drive in my 1.6ghz Intel Piv
it booted fine, media tested fine, installed fine
auto detected the monitor, sound card
had to tell it the onboard SIS 650 chipset for vga, but you can't expect everything
I had no problems with it, apart from not knowing what I was doing
I'll try it again in small firewall mode and see if I can get it to be my web portal
Redhat 9 installing
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Redhat 9 installing
bp6's 3 x dual @ 533
. . . . 1 x dual @ 466
. . . . 1 sngl @ 400
[( 2 x dual xeon 2.4ghz )]
[( 2 x dual xeon 2.66ghz )]
[( 1 x 2.4C ghz )]
[( 1 x 2.4B ghz )]
[( 1 x dual AMD 1800MP )]
[( 1 x P4 1600 )]
[( 1 x 500 ppga )]
3 x piii 866
. . . . 1 x dual @ 466
. . . . 1 sngl @ 400
[( 2 x dual xeon 2.4ghz )]
[( 2 x dual xeon 2.66ghz )]
[( 1 x 2.4C ghz )]
[( 1 x 2.4B ghz )]
[( 1 x dual AMD 1800MP )]
[( 1 x P4 1600 )]
[( 1 x 500 ppga )]
3 x piii 866
I installed RH9 last week. Easy installation was my primary interest, because I don´t know much about Linux. Had Mandrake 9 before, found that much better than 8.1 (especially the faster KDE 3.1 desktop).
But setting up Red Hat 9 is even easier. My ADSL connection worked instantly, while in Mandrake 9 it is still a real pain. The network wizard tends to mess things up. I had the ADSL connection working before, but last week I couln´t get it running anymore. So I scrapped Mandrake and went to Red Hat. Very fine. Expect less problems with rpm packages too.
But setting up Red Hat 9 is even easier. My ADSL connection worked instantly, while in Mandrake 9 it is still a real pain. The network wizard tends to mess things up. I had the ADSL connection working before, but last week I couln´t get it running anymore. So I scrapped Mandrake and went to Red Hat. Very fine. Expect less problems with rpm packages too.
BP6, RU BIOS, XP SP3, ACPI, 2x366@523(1,95V), Pentalpha HS + 1x 12cm fan @5V, 768MB, Powercolor Geforce 3, RTL8139D NIC, Terratec EWS64L, Samsung M40 80GB (2,5''), LiteOn CDRW
I installed RH 9, too, but couldn't use it enough to test it intensively as I'd like. Hope I'll be able to in the next weeks.
Installation went fine; all of the devices I could try were up and running (I didn't test my USB scanner, so I don't know whether it works again).
The only thing is, Gnome is very heavy to my Dual Celeron 433 (even using 512 MB of RAM), so I preferred switching to XFCE (release 4 is about to come), which is much faster.
Installation went fine; all of the devices I could try were up and running (I didn't test my USB scanner, so I don't know whether it works again).
The only thing is, Gnome is very heavy to my Dual Celeron 433 (even using 512 MB of RAM), so I preferred switching to XFCE (release 4 is about to come), which is much faster.
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I tried it and liked it better than Mandrake. The install is actually easier and less confusing than Mandrake's, not to mention faster. Looks like RedHat learnt from their competition. I find Gnome to be pretty fast on my dual 550, certainly comparable to XP.
Two gripes: first off, the XMMS that RedHat includes does not play back MP3s because RedHat fear the RIAA, you have to get the full XMMS RPM and install it, and secondly, the problem I always have with Gnome and my cable internet, that the hosts file doesn't have the hostname defined and spits up an error on logon.
Other than that, great!
Two gripes: first off, the XMMS that RedHat includes does not play back MP3s because RedHat fear the RIAA, you have to get the full XMMS RPM and install it, and secondly, the problem I always have with Gnome and my cable internet, that the hosts file doesn't have the hostname defined and spits up an error on logon.
Other than that, great!
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