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[LI] my :-) and :-( experiences with RHL 6.1



Hi everyone,

I must say I have had a mixed experience :-) and :-( with
RedHat Linux 6.1 distribution on the PCQ CD.

:-) lots of new stuff

:-(

At home, I have a P100 with 16 MB RAM
1. the installation worked fine but could not use the GUI for
installation
2. could not upgrade previous version of RedHat 6.0 installed on my
machine
    the new installation seems to search for the previous installation
by default
    on the first primary partition on your system
3.  not much package info was available at the time of the installation
4.  fdisk was not available at the time of installation, but only disk
druid
5.  i had not selected GNOME in the custom installation (too slow), but
it got
    installed as the default window manager
    actually i have a =stupid question here
        what is the difference between enlightenment and gnome

At office, well, I had to revert back to RedHat 6.0 due to this strange
problem

1. lilo was not able to write the boot loader on the extended partition,
saying
there was a geometry error with cylinder 1045 greater than 1023,
but my partition table info does not show any such problem
in fact, lilo in RedHat 5.2 which I had previously and RedHat 6.0 which
I have now
work fine (not working lilo version is 21)

details for someone to give pointers
i have a 9GB SCSI Hard Disk with Adaptec SCSI hcontroller
and fdisk shows the following

    The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1106.
    There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
    and could in certain setups cause problems with:
    1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
    2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
       (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

    Command (m for help):
    Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/sda1   *         1       255   2048256    7  HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/sda2           256      1106   6835657+   5  Extended
    /dev/sda5           256       893   5124703+   7  HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/sda6           894      1090   1582371   83  Linux
    /dev/sda7          1091      1106    128488+  82  Linux swap

    Command (m for help):
    Expert command (m for help):
    Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders

    Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl   Start    Size ID
     1 80   1   1    0 254  63  254      63 4096512 07
     2 00   0   1  255 254  63 1023 409657513671315 05
     3 00   0   0    0   0   0    0       0       0 00
     4 00   0   0    0   0   0    0       0       0 00
     5 00   1   1  255 254  63  892      6310249407 07
     6 00   1   1  893 254  63 1023      63 3164742 83
     7 00 254  63 1023 254  63 1023      63  256977 82

    Expert command (m for help):

2. NTFS read / write support is mentioned to be dangerous
    but I dared to try it :-(
    i wanted to backup my data on the old Linux installation
    i tried to write it to my NT partition (cp -R)
    it hung
    i killed the shell
    and i forgot :-(
    when i booted in NT after a long duration, NT would not recognize my
d:
    all my project data and personal data was on d:
    i had no clue
    finally i managed to rescue it using chkdsk and my friends help :-)
    and that night (possibly in my sleep) i could recollect that i had
tried to write
    to my NTFS partition using LINUX (so beware)

thanks if you reached this point of the mail after having read all the
nonsense above
- pankaj


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