Ok, I've been getting some pretty funky behavior here, and wanted to ask if anyone else is getting it. I've today been given a bunch of new (old) machines to turn into trusty Linux workstations. To that end, I've been creating working on Schroeder, Rerun, and Patty. Schroeder is a P75, with 16 Meg of RAM and a 750 Meg HD. Rerun is a P133 with 32 Meg RAM and a 1.2 Gig HD. I haven't touched Patty yet (and if someone is keeping track, yes, I do have machines named after Peanuts characters... Linus (the first Linux machine we had, dual named for both Peanuts and Linus Torvalds), Charlie (Brown), Woodstock (a Beowulf), Pigpen, Rerun, Schroeder, (Peppermint) Patty, etc.) I have a very eclectic set, but all the machines are either at RH5.2 stock, RH5.2 with some enhancements, RH6.1 stock, or up-to-date RH6.1 (using AutoRPM). I've been installing new machines as 6.1 ever since I first converted Linus to 6.1 from 5.2. However, with Schroeder I got a major error... during the install, the machine reported that I had very little RAM (that's true... Schroeder has half as much as the next smallest) and so it needed to immediately create the swap drive. No problem. It then started to read the packages on the disk, and crashed. Not a little crash, a big honking "Something is seriously wrong with Python" crash. Ok, Schroeder is old, it's small, maybe it just is defective... can happen, one node on my Beowulf (Woodstock) repeatedly barfs and freezes after being up for >30 minutes. One machine that I started on never even POSTs, so that's obviously garbage... and Woodstock proper (the Master) just died with a hardware failure three days ago. However, I then tried it on Rerun..... and got the identical results. Now this looks suspicious! I've created 5 machines to date with 6.1, with the smallest having 40 megs of RAM.... so I tried 5.2 on Rerun... and it worked. I could put a 5.2 install on, while 6.1 dies. I then tried to upgrade the install from 5.2 to 6.1.... same thing. Why does 5.2 work when 6.1 doesn't???? Anyone have a clue? Anyone know how to upgrade? We like 6.1 MUCH better for Workstations (Rerun is a workstation-to-be) than 5.2, though 5.2 is fine for nodes on the Beowulf, so this is kind of important. Bill Ward -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
