XFS problems

[Stewart Samuels <ssamuels@xxxxxxx>]

To whom it may concern,

I am experiencing several problems with the XFS for Linux Pre-Release.  I used the SGI
XFS for Red Hat 7.0 installer on a CD that I got from the SGI booth at the LinuxWorld Conference and
Expo in New York.  I have logged into your web site and read all the caveats but am still
experiencing major difficulties from several perspectives.  They are as follows:

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.

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.

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.

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.
 

Please help by sending me procedures which would allow me to get around these problems if possible.
Thanks.
 

            Stewart

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