I have had RH 5.0 - 6.2 - 9.x and have no problems loading on my CPQ Presario 1700T. I am running Win98 with CPQ's backup SYSTEM_SAV area as 'D:' and have had minimal problems loading any of the packages. It loaded and recognized all the peripherals including the Netgear 16 bit FA411, the HP 8200 CDRW and the exchange of the floppy and CD/DVD drives. I have not run it as a Linux only system. The most complicated things have been that the early packages required the non GUI text mode and being careful about the sizes and locations of the partitions. I have used both Ranish's and Partition Magic and both worked. I have been getting the updates in a good manner to the many packages I have set up. Like I say the biggest problems I have had are with the particular system I have is a lemon. It will shut off if I touch it wrong and has been through the maintenance black hole - 6 months to get it back. I can start the mysqld just fine. I'm a novice at sql and I don't have it started as part of startup. As far as circular, every Unix/Linux/M$/TandemGuardian I've ever touched has a piece of that action. I believe it is a law of the universe to incorporate at least the minimum of that in all computer junk. Have a nice day, Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Maloney" <adamm at sihope.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 11:32 AM Subject: [TCLUG] Rant > This is a rant. I'm not looking for help, just an outlet to vent. Please > don't reply with fixes - I have a fix, in the form of > <rot13>SerrOFQ</rot13> I think we can also skip the distro wars. I'm > just ranting here... > > I'm installing DeadRat 9 on a box for a customer. The distro and hardware > were chosen by the customer, I have just been told to do it. > > First, I've come to the conclusion that Compaq has designed their systems > to be as completely unfriendly with RH as possible. We're talking SCO > execs at a Linux Conference unfriendly. Again, a Compaq would not have > been my choice, but neither would RH... > > In case anyone needs it, here is what is required to make the RH9 > installation and anaconda start on a Proliant: > > linux text apm=off lowres noapic noht nomce nousb nousbstorage skipddc > > Mind you, in formulating the above novel/boot line, I crashed the > installation 20 some times. Crashed to the point where 3-finger didn't > work. And the fscking Compaq doesn't have a reset switch, so I have to > power off, wait 30 seconds, then power back on. And since it's a Compaq, > the POST takes near forever. > > This is after burning the 3 CD's needed for installation. I remember > installing Slack off of about 20 floppies. I've even installed MS-based > operating systems with only 1 CD, so this was kind of a shocker. > > So I finally got it installed and booted up normally. Great. Now I need > some hot MySQL action. I told the installation program to go ahead and > install MySQL straight away, so it was already there when I rebooted. > > Well, more specifically, the actual FILES were there, but mysql_install_db > hadn't been run, and safe_mysqld isn't started at boot. The RPM'd > installation appears to be worthless, since mysqld can't find the database > directory, despite it being specified in my.cnf. So I decide it's > probably going to take far less time to just remove it and install from > source as I normally do. > > rpm --erase Mysql-blah fails depends check because of Perl-DBD. Okay, so > I rpm --erase Perl-DBD, which fails depends check because of Mysql-blah. > Great, I've seen this kind of circular logic before, but out of Redmond. > Okay, so I try rpm --erase --nodeps Perl-DBD and it hangs. Process is > running, not gaining time. It's been sitting there spinning for 30 > minutes. > > For anyone curious as to how to solve this mess, the solution I've devised > involves a 6-pack of your beverage of choice (alc or non-alc to taste, > although it's a *little* early to start drinking) and some heavy use of > kill -9 and rm -r (I'm assuming I'll have to remove the alias rm=rm -i RH > default that so irritates me). Kids, don't try this at home - I much > prefer the heavy-handed approach, and since this won't be production, I > could honestly care less. > > The moral of the story? Ports...mmm. > > /rant > > Adam Maloney > Systems Administrator > Sihope Communications > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list