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With apologies to the list... Dan Vietor wrote: > > I tried upgrading from RedHat 7.0 to 7.2... Well, as it turns out, my > small 1.6GB /root/home partition wouldn't hold it all. This is an old > Win95 system with four 2GB partitions. The recommendation was 1.5GB for > basic configuration. So I backed up the critical sections of the > computer and installed from scratch using the whole 8GB drive rather > than all these partitions. There are benefits to blowing RH 7.0 away. That was a problem. Further, however, if you don't need all the toys in a "standard" RH installation, select custom, select specific packages you want for your install (I'm assuming they're pretty obvious; in most cases I can see, you're either already Linux-literate, or Unix-literate, and should be able to grok the package names and descriptions. That'd save space, and if you're working on a box that's going to be pretty heavily loaded, one shouldn't have all the overhead. > The install went smooth and I'm up and running. One major point... If > your using X windows (Gnome/KDE desktop), you need more than 64MB of > RAM. It recommends 96MB. My system is 64MB and its swapping like crazy > when I try to do stuff. I guess I'm going to go out and look for > memory! There are lighter-weight window managers than Gnome and KDE. They're not at flashy, but TWM and MWM work pretty well. > I moved the LDM 5.1.3 compiled under RH 7.0 over the 7.2. Remember 7.0 > used the old 2.2 kernel. I started the LDM and its crunching away > without a hitch and without a recompile. Of course, I'm not feeding the > world, nor am I taking the full NOAAPORT feed, just FOS, Difax and radar > mosaics. So it might not be a fair comparison. But so far so good. > > Soon, I will be pushing more NOAAPORT data at it for a stress test. Be looking forward to the reports. gerry -- Gerry Creager AATLT/Network Engineering Texas A&M University 979.458.4020 (Phone) 979.847.8578 (FAX)
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