RH 8.0 X server reconfig problem...

[Andrew Mathews]

Collins wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:35:50 -0600 Andrew Mathews
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>>Have you tried 7.3 on this machine? They're both
>>2.4.18 kernels, and 7.3 on XFS is what we're using on production
>>servers now. If you have the bandwidth to grab the iso's, get them
>>at:
>>ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/Release-1.1/installer/installer/i386/RH7.3-SGI-XFS-1.1.iso
>>
>>for the XFS installer image, and
>>ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.3-en/iso/i386/valhalla-i386-disc1.iso
>>ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.3-en/iso/i386/valhalla-i386-disc2.iso
>>ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.3-en/iso/i386/valhalla-i386-disc3.iso
>>for the os cd's. Or contact me off list for an alternative method.
>>Isn't this fun? <g>
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> 
> What does the XFS installer image do?  I'm pretty sure I know what to
> do with the 7.3 ISO, but the separate XFS stuff is a new one for me.
> 

It provides a bootable cd that is identical to booting off the RH 7.3 
disc 1 for installation, but provides an XFS kernel, for doing a 
complete XFS installation. This eliminates the need for adding XFS 
later, rebuilding the kernel, moving data, etc. The rest of the install 
is exactly like a RH 7.3 install, but you have an XFS filesystem 
immediately. It's quite a time saver and after 100+ installs, I swear by 
it. I'd still be a month out on these machines if I had to do it 
manually. One note though. Red Hat's up2date of glibc breaks xfsdump 
which I use religiously for backups. So I update everything but glibc 
using up2date.

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