Re: installation type & package choice suggestion

1999-10-24 Thread John Summerfield
> > Putting the warnings there is just not enough. It needs to be in the > installer itself with a big flashing WARNING page that clearly tells > the user what is about to happen and if they really want to go ahead > and let it be done. If RH wants to persist with this option, the only sensibl

Re: installation type & package choice suggestion

1999-10-24 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 11:34:11AM +1000, Tony Nugent wrote: > On Sun Oct 24 1999 at 12:03, Tom Diehl wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Chuck Mead wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > As the Red Hat folks are very kind and patient people they > > > probably won't do this but I just cannot help myself.

installation type & package choice suggestion

1999-10-24 Thread Tony Nugent
On Sun Oct 24 1999 at 12:03, Tom Diehl wrote: > Subject: Re: How to lose partitions with RH 6.1: a Mini-HOWTO (Time for a change in the stubject line) > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Chuck Mead wrote: > > > > > > > As the Red Hat folks are very kind and patient people they > > probably won't do this

Re: Available utilities in 'new' rescue mode

1999-10-24 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Kevin Waterson wrote: > > > > > > 2) Move to 2 CDs distribution: it's definitely time to do it. It's > > This would be a major problem for network installs > Not particularly. Just copy or link all the files into a single tree. A link farm doesn't take that much space. -hpa -- To

Re: Available utilities in 'new' rescue mode

1999-10-24 Thread Kevin Waterson
> > > 2) Move to 2 CDs distribution: it's definitely time to do it. It's This would be a major problem for network installs Kevin -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Available utilities in 'new' rescue mode

1999-10-24 Thread Matthew Campbell
JF Martinez writes: > I agree about this but I also think there are some programs who are > redundant with other programs in the distrib;, have been obsoleted by > better ones and have no big followship so there is little reason to > keep them. Removing thme would make some space Can you giv

Re: Available utilities in 'new' rescue mode

1999-10-24 Thread JF Martinez
> > I'm sorry if this issue has been discussed before, but I'm not at all > happy with the new rescue method. I've nothing against booting from the > CD, but the fact that the only utilities offered are the ones used during > the installation is something I can only laugh at. Even such vital thin

Available utilities in 'new' rescue mode

1999-10-24 Thread Alex Kanavin
Hello ! I'm sorry if this issue has been discussed before, but I'm not at all happy with the new rescue method. I've nothing against booting from the CD, but the fact that the only utilities offered are the ones used during the installation is something I can only laugh at. Even such vital things

identd processes that seem to do nothing

1999-10-24 Thread Alex Kanavin
Hello! I've noticed one wierdness in RedHat 6.1: if I ftp to myself then eleven sleeping identd processes appear and don't go away until I manually kill them. They don't have any files opened (except shared libs) and netstat -a doesn't show active connections on port 113. Also no sign of successf

Re: updated redhat distribution / installation cdroms

1999-10-24 Thread Tom Diehl
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Matt Nelson wrote: > why should i have to burn my own disk??? i paid $80 so that i wouldn't > have to! > > i suspect you are correct, though. Red Hat will probably not issue new > CD's. this is a bad move for Red Hat, however. let me ask > three questions: > > 1) is Red

Re: How to lose partitions with RH 6.1: a Mini-HOWTO

1999-10-24 Thread Tom Diehl
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Chuck Mead wrote: > > > As the Red Hat folks are very kind and patient people they probably won't do > this but I just cannot help myself. (Plz note that I have been in your > shoes, but not recently ~sigh!). > < Lots of good stuff deleted> > > We *WERE* warned.

spost in nmh 1.0 broken?

1999-10-24 Thread Tony Nugent
[warning: posted to both exmh and redhat-devel mailing lists] I've recently upgraded my workstation to redhat 6.1. It appears that /usr/lib/nmh/spost in nmh-1.0 is broken... it no longer works, and I get a message similar to this: spost: aliasing error in file aliases - aliases It took