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Red Hat (wolverine) Beta

UnixFreak

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Just burned Wolverine, getting much closer to 7.1.. has anyone else ran this?? I installed it
"crash box" style, getting a separate HD, so I can dump it easier if I dont like it, this is the machine

AMD k6/2+ 500 @ 550
256mb RAM
Geforce 2 mx
15gig Barracuda HD

Everything installed perfect the first time, and It runs Great!! this thing has got to be pretty close to release,
I noticed, for one, with the "stock" Kernel, it boots up faster, 21.5 seconds faster than 7, and I havent even touched the kernel yet, or modified the services, I am not sure why the drastic difference, but I like it. The general operations seem much faster, though I havent really benchmarked it. Nutscrape loads faster, but I noticed the fonts are HUGE on default install. The Netscape in 7 defaulted to really tiny fonts, which I always had to change, and this one defaults huge, so i still have to change. Hardly considered a big deal, but the only thing I noticed. Another thing I noticed, installs mozilla by default, pretty cool, not that it takes much to d/l and install, but for some this is a convinience. (mozilla rocks). I havent had a problem yet, I ran through a lot of stuff, but I have only spent about 5 hours on it so far. Cool that the Geforce 2 was autodetected, and drivers installed, I know that newbies have a hard time installing the drivers, and modifying the XF86config-4, so the card support is cool, I noticed a lot of new cards on the list. So far, I think its getting close, and it looks good, has anyone else here ran it?? Have you found any major problems?? Bugs? did it detect all your hardware??

 
I would try Wolverine if I hadn't already got Red Hat 7.

I have one question about Red Hat 7 that maybe you guys can help me with. Can I put my /boot partition past the 8 GB limit? Does Red Hat 7 have a new enough version of LILO? I can't find the answer in the Red Hat installation guide.
 
in your /etc/lilo.conf, just add the line:
lba32
there might be another line that serves the opposite purpose, which I can't remember (try "man lilo.conf&quot😉. lba32 isn't documented AFAIK (which is annoying). I know that either win9x or linux is started after 8 gig - I have a 20gig fat32 partition and 8 gig for linux (some is swap, dunno how much 😉). Apparenlty 9x doesn't like not being #1? partition 1 is the fat32 drive, so I would assume linux is the last 8gig, no issues.
 
Thanks, I'll look into this more. If it doesn't work out I can always boot from a floppy. I hear it's slow to boot up, but I don't mind.
 
🙂 if you boot from a floppy, compile your kernel with some special option (can't remember it) and use lilo compact (or something like that, also check man pages) it'll be a faster (yet still slow) boot
 
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