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Since when is a P4 the same as IA64??

On 01/29/03 20:02, tom wrote:
> "m.w.chang" <mwchang at i-cable.com> wrote:
> 
>>I am sorry to say that Redhat's whole installation is less than trivial, 
>>esp if you compare it against the old Caldera product lines.
> 
> I'm sorry to butt in, but I've never had a REDHAT installations 
> heave like your mentioning here.  Sounds like your installing on
> the latest and greatest Pentium 4, with the ia-32bit verision, or
> the CDROM your using is a dud.
> 
> Maybe you should try downloading the ia-64 version of WS 3.1.1,
> and see if your problems 'magically' go away.
> 
> ia-32 and ia-64 is a architecture jump and despite what you may think,
> hardware or the LINUX OS is not finicky.  It does what it's able to 
> do, and nothing more.  PERIOD.
> 
> 
> With installation of both products, Redhat's is more functional,
> and Caldera/SCO maybe is prettier, but as of RH 7.3/8.0, 
> and COL WS 3.1.1, the installs are almost the same except
> for the logo's. 
> 
> To me, it looked like CALDERA/SCO learned a lot from previous customer
> complaints, and from installing either SUSE or RH.
> 
> There major differences;  
> 
> - Caldera default install does not permit the installation of LILO,
>   they went strictly with GRUB; [ I can use both, I don't care ]
>   [ REDHAT, SUSE, can do both, under installer selection ]
> 
> - CALDERA/SCO as of WS 3.1.1 does a fairly limited inclusion of a
>   refined packaged installation management, a basic knockoff of 
>   REDHAT/SUSE/SLACKWARE package management installation.
> 
>   [ BUT hell, I was one of the customers that wrote and 
>     complained about this when I went and bought 
>     eDesktop 2.4 years ago ]
> 
> 
>>Towards the end of the Redhat 8 installation process, it would suddenly 
>>complained about insufficient disk space or something, though I did 
>>allocate needed disk space using custom partitioning and the whole 
>>process just abended.
> 
> See above.   Either your CDROM your using is hosed, or your using
> some weird hardware that the kernel simply doesn't recognise.
> [ SEE ATA-100 adapter/newer scsi adapter ]
> 
> That, or your using ia-32bit OS for a Pentium 4, in which case
> you should be using the ia-64bit version of the very same 
> COL WS 3.1.1 OS.
> 
> It may save you tons of installation/troubleshooting time in
> the long run.
> 
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