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

[KNJayadevan@xxxxxxxx]

The commonly used window managers for Linux/Unix is Enlightenment.   Gnome
& KDE  are   desktop environment.
regards
jd

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> From: 	pankaj[SMTP:meetpankaj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Reply To: 	linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: 	Wednesday, November 17, 1999 3:19 PM
> To: 	'linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: 	[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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