There are some clashes and this is natural. For instance, we replace
/etc/securetty so that it can handle the new devfs names for the virtual
consoles. But this file is owned by a package in RedHat. In our
installer, (if you run INSTALL), it will handle the clashes for you.
The ProPAck is meant to install on top of any system. It has a superset
of hardware support in RedHAT. That being said, we have not tested every
piece of hardware. For instance, the Buslogic SCSI driver has been
reported to be broken in 1.3 (BTW, this is fixed in 1.4 as of the ALPHA).
THe 1.3 website is out of date and should be updated. We are no longer in
BETA for 1.3 and we released 1.3 over a month ago. In fact, we are in the
midst of working on releasing 1.4. I should really update the website if
I can get a chance.
Thanks for your feedback and I encourage you to keep up the testing. We
can use as much help as we can get.
later,
-tduffy
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Jari Perttunen wrote:
>
> Encouraged by your wish to send feedback
> about your SGI ProPack 1.3 for Linux I would
> like to ask first if it is only meant
> to work with SGI Linux machines or does it run
> (or is meant to run) on top of RedHat 6.2 in general?
> Naturally hardware support for graphics may not exist.
>
>
> I have RedHat 6.2 on Dell Latitude XPi Laptop,
> I am not able to install ProPack 1.3 on top of it.
> Individual packages in ProPack 1.3 seem to clash
> with existing packages in RedHat 6.2.
>
> Yours Sincerely,
>
> -Jari Perttunen
>
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> Metla
> email: jari.perttunen@xxxxxxxx
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