Re: RedHat 7.0

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:53 AM 9/28/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> Steve Lord wrote:

<snip>

> > Other concerns would be that the binaries of user space which are
> > dynamically linked agains glibc will have issues with the newer glibc
> > in Redhat 7.0. In theory they would not but.....
> >
> > Steve
>
> For gins I tried the ProPack install on a 7.0 system.
> Seems 7.0 uses rpm 4. whatever, the ProPack installer expects
> rpm 3.0.5 (I think), need less to say things didn't jive.

True

> I tried the not PP rpms, they did install but I had trouble with
> lilo not loading the correct kernel... probably pilot error.

I have installed the XFS_BETA_2 rpms from the beta release and I have a 
test5 kernel with xfs compiled when the machine still was a redhat 6.2 box.

Both these kernels have the following problem after booting.
it runs init.
You get the line "Mounting proc filesystem" (disk activity) followed by a 
quick "Unknown group utmp" message.
"init: entering runlevel 3"
After that the login prompt stares at you.

try to log in as root and it will barf at you, and I quote: "You don't 
exist, go away"
How rude. ;-)

After hitting the reset button the machine will leave all partitions in a 
unclean state with just a few minor errors on the / disk.

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Seth
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