On Tue, 29 May 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Hello,
> Thank you for the detailed report.  Comments and questions are below at
> the appropriate spots.
>
> Claudiu Tanaselia wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Yesterday I burned and freshly installed SL 5.0 on my primarily
>> desktop oriented system, though I used it for ssh, ftp and http server
>> too. Here are some questions and remarks about the install process.
>>
>> My system consist of: Asus P5B-Deluxe MB (with that hated JMicron
>> Controller), 512 MB RAM 800MHz, Intel Core2 Duo E6300 1.8GHz, 1 WD
>> 320GB SATA HDD (+1WD 250GB from time to time for backups and storage),
>> nvidia 7300 GT video board.
>>
> Since it is mentioned below, can you send the output of lspci?
>
>> I was affraid that the installer will not recognize my SATA HDD
>> (happened with all the distro except the latest Ubuntu) so I booted
>> the install DVD with "linux all-generic-ide"  parameter, soon to
>> realize that the installer was awfully slow, and I had to gave up
>> after waiting more than 15 minute after I pressed OK on selecting the
>> keyboard. I tried running without all-generic-ide parameter and it
>> booted flawlessly, my HDD was seen and installed on, with normal
>> speed. This was nice.
>>
>> Regarding the installer, I saw some mentions of RHEL Beta. SL is
>> compiled using the RHEL final release sources, right? That mentions of
>> Beta was left accidentally from previous builds?
>>
>
> Where are you seeing mentions of RHEL Beta?
> These rpm's are *not* built off RHEL 5 final.  But, just so you know
> neither was RHEL 5.  But our goal is to build everything from publically
> available rpm's.

But the SRPMS were from RHEL 5 final.

> Just so you know our usual procedure.  We build everything from the last
> RHEL public beta.  Re-install everything, then build everything again
> with that release.  So ... in essence, it sortof is rebuilt from the
> latest RHEL 5, but it's really built from the latest SL 5.
> But this time was a little different.
> If you look at a real RHEL 5 you will notice alot of packages marked
> fc6.  Yes, that's right, they actually shipped Fedora Core 6 packages,
> rebuilt on a fedora core 6 machine.
> For some of these packages, we actually had to recompiled them on a
> fedora core 6 machine, or the equivilant of one.  So you are going to
> see some fc6 marked rpm's in the release.
> But what about beta 5?  I think I found it.
> gaim-2.0.0-0.28.beta5.el5
> That is actually the fifth beta of gaim.  Not the beta of RHEL5.
>
>> I have an Attansic L1 ethernet board, for which I need special
>> drivers. Using my MB CD I compiled and installed the drivers. Now, my
>> mistake was that I don't look previously to see if my new installed
>> system was able to detect my ethernet. I just saw that pings doesn't
>> worked and firefox wasn't displaying any pages so I get the drivers
>> and compiled them. After inserting the modules and configuring the
>> network using the applet from Administration, I had no problem with my
>> Internet connection.
>>
>> For repositories, I've added freshrpm for ktorrent and vlc. Is
>> freshrpm a good thing for SL or not? I've chosen the repos for
>> RHEL5.0. Can I used it for updates too?
>>
>
> Maybe I'm looking at the wrong place, but I don't see FreshRPM's
> supporthing RHEL5.  Are you sure you aren't really poiting to a dag or
> rpmforge repository?
>
>> I let the computer run overnight for some downloading. In the morning,
>> I saw that my Internet connection was down. My eth0 was inactive and
>> when trying to activate it using the same panel under Administration
>> menu, give an error, being unable to detect my IP. Pinging my router
>> doesn't do any good. Now, since I don't have direct physic access to
>> my router all the time, it is possible that it was poweroff during the
>> night or some ISP problems happend in the mean time. I will check it,
>> though my first thought was that my ethernet driver failed somehow,
>> which seems stranger and less probable than my router powered off or
>> ISP problems. How can I identify the source of the problem, without
>> having direct access to the router?
>>
>> Thank you and I apologize I my text is too long, but I wanted to give
>> you as much details as possible.
>>
>> Claudiu Tanaselia,
>> PhD student and Assistent Researcher,
>> Institute for Analytical Instrumentation, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
>>
>> P.S. One of the pictures from the Anaconda installer slideshow
>> featured a man in the shadow, on a circular background. That man look
>> very much like Arthur.C. Clarke, can someone confirm this? Just
>> curious :)

That is a picture of my husband.  I am quite sure he is not "Arthur.C. 
Clarke" but he does like to read science fiction.

>
> I'll let Connie comment on that picture.
> At some point I will have a page up with all the pictures, who took
> them, and what they are of.  That will be when I get the installation
> page created.
>
> Troy
>

-Connie Sieh