[LI] Redhat 6.1 PCQ, not as good as hyped

["DigitelNet Systems" <digitelnet@xxxxxxxx>]

I ave been reading a lot about the problems in PCQ distro, but did not
believe any till I felt the doom.

I had accured a new machine with P I 233/ 64MB/ 4.3 GB, 4MB Trident PCI with
TV out, LG 32X CDrom, 15" LG Studioworks monitor, 104 key Windows Enhanced
keyboard.

Instead of putting in Win 95/98 (as I probably should have done, since being
an MCSE), I thought to try out the RHL 6.1, I did the partitioning as 1gb
primary (for windoze), 128MB swap, 3MB linux native, prepared the windoze
drive with a 95 startup, copied the installtion of 98 SR2 beta into a
folder.  Then tried to bootup the pc from the RHL-PCQ cd, which confronted
me with a "SYSLINUX ********" the *'s being a lot of ascii character on the
screen. well previously all the linux installations (other than RHL 5.2 PCQ)
which I accquired had some problem like this.  So I went the other way,
fired up windoze, enabled the cdrom,copied the dosutils\autoboot,
autoboot.bat, loadlin.exe and tried the alternative way, the installation
was smooth, however I could not find a generic monitor or even find my
models (LG Studio works or my other one KTX5151), so i went ahead with a
juggled up one (i think i chose acer), and completed the installation.
upon restart, I tried netconfig, which exited with fatal error and core
dumped, I fired up the x and tried internet connection tool, which also
dumped the core, I tried a lot of other apps, and they too dumped the core,
I tried to change the modem from the default (/dev/cua0) to com2 (forgive
the windozequirk), it also dumped the core, I am now afraid, that I may not
have any more core to dump, so I did a lilo -u and went ahead to configure
my windoze, which is up and running.
Then I went back on my track and upped the system using RHL 5.2 PCQ, and
have not faced any problem atall, other than I cannot get apache to
recognize my php scripts, and mysql cannot be started as a daemon.
Here i tried to upgrade the installation with the RHL-PCQ 6.1, wich crashed
at the installation script, itself, thankgod my 5.2 is still working.

thanks for all for tolerating my detailed (story) description.


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