Apparently, Red Hat likes to remove things, too. I've been having the
damnedest time trying to install RH 6.2 on Dell Pricision workstations that
have Ultra66 controllers. The RH install fails even though the kernel should
support Ultra66 disk controllers. I get the unadultered kernel from kerl.org,
and I have no problems. I've managed to develop a workaround, but I have to
install RH 6.2 on about a dozen machines in the next few weeks. Big hassle. If
it was my decision, I'd stop using RH altogether just because of this one
issue. Corel installed flawlessly, but we've standardized on RH 6.2.
If you ask me, RH is doing everything they can to become the Microsoft of the
Linux world. I read somehwere that in earlier releases (6.0?) they removed U66
support from the kernel. From my experiences, it's not in 6.1 or 6.2 either.
Why on earth would they remove much need hardware support from the kernel? Like
I said, I would stop using RH and switch to another distro, but it's not my
choice. Thanks to their Microsoft-esque guerrilla marketing tactics, most
companies that sell commercial software for Linux, do not market it as for
"Linux," but for "Red Hat."
Yes, I'm bitter and I'm pissed - what should be a simple installation project
is becoming a major hassle. No flaming necessary, but if you still feel the
need, at least send the flames tot he list so everyone can enjoy them : ).
Ellertson wrote:
> Where you got the kernel does matter. RedHat adds some patches to their
> kernels that havn't made it into the official stable kernels yet.
>
> Mikkel
>
> On Sun, 21 May 2000, Victor R. Cardona wrote:
>
> > Where you got the kernel really shouldn't matter. I too noticed that there
> > are some options missing. The Power down on shutdown option is no longer
> >included for some reason. Oh wel, as long as you don't have a dire need to
> > upgrade, I guess it's ok.
> >
> > Victor
> >
> > On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 04:36:45PM -0700, Stephen King wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I was just recompiling a new kernel (2.2.15) and found that there are a few
> > > options that 2.2.14 had that are missing here. Mostly I'm looking for the
> > > network config option CONFIG_NET_SCHED. Is there any reason why this might
> > > be? I could go back and use 2.2.14, but I'd like to find out why this is
> > > missing certain network config options.
> > > I should say that the 2.2.14 came with Redhat6.2 and the 2.2.15 is a kernel
> > > I got from a kernel mirror site.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Stephen
> > >
>
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