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Ice-9:
After much testing with RH 8.0 I've made up my mind, I will switch from SuSE to RH!!!
To be absolutely sure about everything, on my test box I wiped the HDD clean, added a second one and installed Win2K on the master drive.
Next I installed RH, tested the dual boot to see if I could boot both Win2K and RH, no probs except for the LILO bootloader to be butt ugly.
So far so good!
Then I borrowed VMWare 3.2 from a friend of mine to see if I could get it to work.
Weel, it worked like a charm, I'm installing a Win98 VM now
So VMWare is a winner, I'm gonna order it, I'm hooked.
What I wonder about is, I've seen "add hardware" options in both Mandrake and SuSE but not in RH, is there an easy way to get new hardware recognized in RH?
I looked for it on their website but found nothing really satisfactory?!
Now, all I gotta do is wipe my SuSE partition and install RH on my main machine.
I just hope it's gonna be as smooth as on my test box ...
I replicated an almost identical config, so it should work, shouldn't it?
And btw, void main, what do you think about SuSE now that you had time to play with it?
Ice-9:
Hmmmm, every time I shut down my virtual machine I get a VMWare Panic wit a lot of errors behind :confused:
And then I have to re-install the guest-OS.
It was also a little sluggish on my PII 400 :D
Bah, I'll givbe it another go when I install RH on my main machine (P4 1.8), should run a little faster at the least.
Edit : I just had the VMWare panic again, something about AIO not installed, but didn't have to re-install the guest OS anymore, I could reboot in Win98 no probs.
What is AIO, THAT'S THE QUESTION! :D
[ October 29, 2002: Message edited by: Ice9 ]
voidmain:
Ever since upgrading to RH8.0 (which I also upgraded VMware at the same time) I get a VMware error after shutting down the guest OS and closing the VMware window. But it doesn't do any damage to my guest OS.
I find after a new RH upgrade it takes VMware a little time to get all the bugs out and eventually they will have a VMware (usually not *too* long) that has no errors with the new release of RH. I doubt that they would claim to support RH8 on their site just yet, but I've been using it since the day RH8 came out with only that little annoying error when closing the VMware window.
The thing is, I might not upgrade to VMware 4.0 when it comes out. I *rarely* run my Windows VMware session any more. Ever since installing RH8 I have fully converted the rest of my family over to RH with no problems. They really have OpenOffice working well and my duaghter has no problems using it. Now that I have video/capturing capabilities I don't have to reboot for that. I only have one program that requires Windows and I'm selling it ($300 sim).
I just installed "apt" for RPM (Debian's package manager) and I've installed several things today with it and everything went slick as a whistle. Any dependencies were downloaded and installed along with the target app. If you haven't checked into it you might want to. The first thing you might want to install with it is "mplayer":
# apt-get install mplayer
# apt-get install mplayer-skins
which will download/install mplayer, gmplayer, mencoder, and all the skins just like if you were on a Debian box (apt does kick butt).
mobrien_12:
quote:Originally posted by Ice9:
After much testing with RH 8.0 I've made up my mind, I will switch from SuSE to RH!!!
To be absolutely sure about everything, on my test box I wiped the HDD clean, added a second one and installed Win2K on the master drive.
Next I installed RH, tested the dual boot to see if I could boot both Win2K and RH, no probs except for the LILO bootloader to be butt ugly.
So far so good!
What I wonder about is, I've seen "add hardware" options in both Mandrake and SuSE but not in RH, is there an easy way to get new hardware recognized in RH?
--- End quote ---
RH has its little kudzu program which automatically recognizes new hardware on boot. Will that work for you
You can get rid of that ugly graphical lilo screen too by respecifying message.
rtgwbmsr:
I have trouble installing RH8 or Drake9 in VMWare or VPC (Win or Mac version). It gets up to the packet installing parts and slows down like molasses in winter.
Oh well. Drake 9 is awesome, I haven't had a chance to play with RH 8 much. When I get my shiny new server you can bet your $$ that some version RH is going on it. As long as my onboard NIC has no problems with it
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