On 06 Mar 2001 12:33:12 -0500, Stewart Samuels wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
> 1) After completing the XFS installation for some reason, trying to
> boot from the Red Hat 7.0 CDs is now extremely slow. The process to
> bring up Anaconda or for that matter just load vmlinuz from the CD
> takes about 20-30 minutes. Normally, it only takes my system
> (1 gHz Athlon) less than a minute to boot this far.
The install CD itself boots slowly? I've never seen this - the system
will boot somewhat slowly after installation due to the large ramdisk,
and you'll want to recompile the kernel to avoid this. Not sure what
to tell you if the CD is slow...
> 2) I cannot reload the "up2date", "up2date-gnome", "LPRng", and
> "usermode" packages once the system boots because the system does not
> setup and of the cdrom (of which I have 2) devices.
This is because of the (now infamous) decision to enable devfs on the
system - read up on the devfs faq to see how to load mount your CD-ROMS
(you'll need to load the appropriate modules to get the devices in /dev
to appear)
> 3) I get error messages that ppp requires other packages (possible
> due to not being able to reload those packages in paragraph 2 above)
> when trying to use my modem to establish a ppp connection. I can dial
> out manually, but not with ppp.
What packages does it complain about? Once you get your cdrom mounted
and install those packages hopefully it'll work.
> 4) XFree86 and gpm are not configured. This seems to be a problem
> with /devfs in that everytime I reboot the system I must relink the
> modem and the mouse to the appropriate device.
This is devfs again. /dev/modem and /dev/mouse aren't there anymore,
you can tell devfsd to create them, or point your config files to the
new devfs devices.
-Eric
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