Redhat 7.2 Problems

[Slobnak]

Hi,

UMm I seem to have e few problems with my RH7.2 installation,

Everythings installed ok, running nice, looking nice except my mounts for CDROMS won't play.

I'm getting 'not valid block device' messages when I try to open the via the desktop icons, or by mounting via command line.

I have noticed that the hardware browser sees the drives as HDB2 and SCD0 (two cdroms a normal and a scsi burner) whilst in FSTAB they are maked as /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom1, I'm no pro so maybe the problem is lurking here ???

Also GIMP wont run, but thats another story...

Cheers for any help,ideas

Darren

[bdg1983]

Well since Redhat 7.2 was just released a week or so ago and you can most likely see that there are quite a few users that are having multiple problems with this version ( you should have chosen Caldera instead ), I would suggest you check the bug reports and any other Redhat mailing list for solutions to your problems.

Gimp will not not run because Redhat does not compile all the included apps to work with their distro as Caldera does. And that's a proven fact. Throw everything in and hope it works. Sure Redhat/Mandrake release all the latest and greatest, but that won't help you in the long run. The apps won't work together.

Caldera uses professional release procedures that assure that
when any of the programs are recompiled that the source code (the
``binaries") are compatible with the libraries and the compiler that
are supplied. This process is known as ``self-hosting". It is the
extra care used by professional software developers that means so
much to developers using Linux. Red Hat ``self-hosts" about 30
packages -- of the hundreds that they include in their ``distribution".
Selfhosting is a feature to be of interest to more than developers,
however. Smart Reseller (now Smart Partner) magazine ran
benchmarks of Red Hat, Caldera, SuSE, and Windows NT (See
Jan 25, 1999 issue). Those benchmarks found that Caldera ran
250% faster than NT in the file I/O tests. When measuring these
operating systems as Web servers, it found that Caldera ran 50%
faster than any other system, including Red Hat. Here is how they
explained the performance differences between Linuxes:
``Those results also point out the vast differences that compilation
can have in performance. The source code may be the same, but
the quality of the binary code, the executable, varies significantly,
depending upon how well the source code was compiled." That
points directly to Caldera's ``self-hosting" as the reason for its
performance.

[Slobnak]

I must seek out Caldera,
only used RH because I could use ASDL at work to grab it.

[bdg1983]

I've been using various versions of Caldera for a couple of years now and feel no need to switch to another distro.

I'm still amazed on the amount of problems others have here as I never seem to really have any problems with Caldera.

If you are interested, try Workstation 3.1 though 3.1.1 with the 2.4.10 kernel, KDE 2.2.1 and X4.1 is currently in beta. I just downloaded and burned the latest beta yesterday and will give it a try on one of my work pc's.

[bdg1983]

If you do decide on the latest Caldera, make sure your pc hardware meets the minimum requirements.

[bdg1983]

http://www.caldera.com/download/

for the Workstation 3.1 iso and also the supplemental opensource iso image.

[Slobnak]

If I get chance tommorow I'll grab it at work, seem that quiet a few people are having problmes with the new RH.

Cheers for the advice ;)

[bdg1983]

A pleasure.

Hope it goes well for you as ALL their versions have gone for me.