[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Novell SuSe DVD's... -- RHL9 (CL3.1), FC1 (CL3.2) and FC2 (CL4.0) considerations ...

[Wayne Dahl]

On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 09:48, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 12:38, Wayne Dahl wrote:

> Interesting.  Did you check the install logs in /tmp to find out what
> went wrong?  Most people don't.  Each and _every_ time I have, it's been
> a CD read error.

No, I'm one of those people who didn't.  I've never had a problem installing anything from iso's I'd burned 
from net downloads before and figured it might possibly be a corrupt
CD.  The CD's did pass the media test, but that doesn't mean
anything...just means the CD's should be readable.

> > I have no idea what was happening...possibly a corrupt CD or
> > something...have no idea.
> 
> Disk full, bad CD read, installer bug, etc...  It's good to find out.

It couldn't be a disk full error as I had an almost empty 40G drive work
with.  Had to be maybe a bad CD read or installer bug.  We'll never know
now.  However, if I do attempt to install it to another machine from
those CD's, I will check the logs assuming I can get into the machine to
see what went wrong.

> The question now is whether Red Hat will support Red Hat Linux 9 (CL3.1)
> as the "last release" in the CL3 series, or Fedora Core 1 (CL3.2)?  I
> assume popularity will tell, now that Fedora Core 1 is getting tagged as
> "Legacy" any day now.

I believe the answer to this would be no.  RH put out several emails
last year stating that RH 9 would no longer be supported after December
(if I remember correctly) of 2003 the same time as they stated that RH 8
would no longer be supported.

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Wayne Dahl
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