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Re: RedHat 7.0 XFS-prerelease-test2-rc2

To: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.0 XFS-prerelease-test2-rc2
From: Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan <ananth@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 12:35:23 -0800
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <3A5AB4B9.C6AA3A53@thebarn.com>
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Russell Cattelan wrote:
> 
> I put a new iso images up on oss.
> ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/RH7.0-XFS-test2.iso
> 
> Things fixed.
> file systems types can now be mixed
> ie some xfs some ext2
> installed kernels are now 2.4.0 based
> NOTE kernel during install process is still test11 based.
> 
> ftp, http and nfs installs via floppy now work.
> 
> Significantly reduced ram disk sizes... should work better
> on small mem systems.
> 
> Note I don't have many plans to look into X related install problems.
> We haven't touched this area of the installer so any problems
> are RH problems, and hopefully will be fixed by the RH people.


The new images work fine on a test system here (64MB, 2P).
Looks like mkinitrd problems are gone now, since the
modules are _much_ less bulky with no g3. I'll look
to reproduce the bug by putting back g3 & increasing
module sizes ...

ananth.


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