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will@xxxx.swaggie.net wrote:

> Mauro Prencipe <mauro.prencipe@tiscali.it> wrote:
> 
>> to avoid you a lot of time lost in such attempts...
>> I've the same problem (I also have an Athlon), and I was not able to
>> install R8.0 (I was able to install R7.0, instead).
>> 
>> I ask to the whole World, but the anwers didn't solve anything. The guys
>> of the RedHat support adviced to me a lot of "undocumented" options to be
>> passed at the boot prompt, but none of them proved to be useful. At last
>> I returned to my old R7.0. My regret concern the money I spent to buy the
>> RedHat package!
> 
> in the past i've had so many similar problems trying to install redhat,
> it's just not funny! however, i had no problems at all installing rh7.3
> recently. i certainly wouldn't even think about trying to use rh8.0 (or
> rh7.0!). i'll wait till at least 8.2 or maybe 8.3 before i think about
> upgrading my home 7.3 system. the two servers i look after at the
> local community radio station run rh7.2 with a few security updates etc,
> and they're unlikely to get upgraded to 8.anything in the forseeable
> future.

I've had no major troubles with RH8.0 on 2 dell laptops and an assortment of 
desktops.

Some minor irritations, like poor AA font rendering and some weird behaviour 
with Mozilla and cups printing, but nothing has stopped me from using it on 
a daily basis. My realtec NICs wont work with DHCP , but i just swapped in 
a different card. (realtec driver doesn't detect cable, so dhcp refuses to 
work, but you can manually set the IP without dramas)

My servers are still 7.x , but i've not need to upgrade them. 

> 
> however, if you'd rather be using 8.0 than your current 7.0, why not use
> the 8.0 installation cds to *upgrade*? you ought to be able to do that,
> even if you can't install from scratch.
> 
> and, to the original poster: it's definitely worth a try copying the
> contents of the cds onto another partition, but before you do that, make a
> boot floppy (and a root floppy? i dunno how it works with rh8.) and try
> and boot from those and get the install started. if you get to the stage
> where it wants the source packages, then it's worth copying the cds to
> your hdd. if you can't get it to that stage by booting from floppy, then
> you'll be wasting your time. rh8.1 is out now, it probably makes more
> sense to install that anyway.
> 
> good luck!
> will
> 
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