I am right now installing RH9 onto my 5680 (3.2/1 GB/80GB 4200RPM/DVD-RW/802.11b/BT).
This is going to be a stream on concious post of what I'm doing. I'm kinda new at Linux, so I've got a friend here to help me.
We'll continue this later.
This is going to be a stream on concious post of what I'm doing. I'm kinda new at Linux, so I've got a friend here to help me.
- Boots up fine into installer.
- Ack, blue/yellow splash screen for X was fuxx0r3d.
- X loaded properly.
- Using Wheel Mouse (PS/2) as mouse (I have an MX500, but it should be detected properly).
- I left 5114 MB open, and automatically partitioned.
- I had no need for network authentication, so I just moved on from that step.
- I selected almost all of the packages, which leaves me with about 3 GB left for home directories.
- Formatting went incredibly quick, compared to the 55 mins it took to format 55 GB NTFS for Windows and 20 mins for 14.5 GB FAT32.
- Installation should take about 14 minutes, that's pretty good considering it took almost 30 mins to install it on
- My friend decided to search for a SCSI card for the backup server he's building for tommorow's move of the webserver for the CS department, and got locked outside in the loading bay (ha ha ha), so I had to go save him.
- My install time has jumped to 17:24.
- My install time has jumped to 18:34.
- Time jumped again to 20:00.
- I used the Generic VESA drivers, 800x600x24.
- Install went without a hitch.
- Upon rebooting, X would not launch. I changed the resolution to 1600x1200x16 via the configurator supplied.
- For some reason I couldn't get control+alt+backspace to work in order to restart X, so I decided to go get the radeon 9200 drivers from dri.sf.net.
- RH detected the Realtek chipset, added and activated. Rebooted afterwards for good measure and to complete RH installation.
- We had to add a nameserver change in resolv.conf, but we decided to continue later
We'll continue this later.
