[KLUG Members] First RH8.0 Install

[Dirk Bartley]

On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 11:28, Adam Williams wrote:
> I got my first RH8.0 disks from Bruce last night and today did my first
> 8.0 installation (on a brand new IBM x330 w/1Gb RAM, mirrored 15k RPM
> Ultra SCSI3 drives, trunked ethernet interfaces, and dually 1.2Ghz Xeons
> with extra L2 cache, zooooommm...)
> 
> I first tried the text mode installed, but couldn't figure out how to
> create a logical volume.

Not that I could tell.  I tried text mode first as well and failed. 
Then I tried the gui and saw that it allowed the lvs during the install
and then tried and failed with lvs on the text install again.

>  It let me merrily create an MD device and dump
> a physical volume on that,  but then I couldn't figure out how to
> instance any lvs on it.  Did I miss something obvious?

If you did, then so did I.

> 
> So I zapped the reset button, plugged in a mouse, and started over in
> GUI installer.  First impression - Wow!  That is one Zzexy installed, 
> all anti-aliased, shaded, bevelled.... The icons, blurbs, etc... are all
> first rate.  It gives IBM's DVD based installer a run for it's money, 
> only no music. :(  How about a built in Ogg Vorbis player?  The 1812
> Overture plays quietly in the background..

I had an issue with my usb M$ mouse the first time I tried.  I let it
stay as a generic usb mouse and about half way, during the network
settings.  I could click on the box to enter values, but not get to
enter text.  So I started again letting it know that it was an M$ mouse
with no issues.

> 
> The GUI disk druid let me create mds, pvs, and lvs in just about any
> combination I could dream up.  Very nice! 

I left unpartitioned space just so that I could learn to add this space
to /home.  WOW!!! What an incredibly powerful capability.  Add size to a
partition.  What an intelligent concept.  Now if I could only get this
on my production servers.

Dirk
> 
> I can't wait to see how fast this baby loads Open Office. :)


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