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Old 04-26-2001, 12:01 PM   #1
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I installed 7.0 and then proceeded to the ftp site updates.redhat.com, and went and dled the whole 180 some odd megs of rpm's and installed them up till 4/18/01. Now do i have redhat 7.1 now? What will make me have 7.1, someone told m an update cd will but i cant find a spot to dl, only by paying for cd? Im just wondering what makes 7.0 7.0 and what makes 7.1 7.1? any help would be great.
 
Old 04-26-2001, 12:34 PM   #2
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Try http://www.kernel.org the main difference between RH7.0 and RH7.1 is that the kernels are 2.2.16 and 2.4.1 respectively. What this means is there is better USB hardware detection on RH7.1. For example, if you have a Iomega 100 USB Zip drive the Linux drivers (which you can download from Iomega) will only work with Kernel 2.4x (RH7.1). You have two choices: either download the latest kernel and update RH7.0 or get RH7.1. Does that answer your question? If not I send my appologies.
 
Old 04-26-2001, 12:58 PM   #3
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thanx

actually it does answer my question thanx, although of course i have another. in that whole dir for updates at redhat i just noticed that there were kernel upgrades and there names had 2.2.19 and now im running 2.2.16, now why whould they have that as an upgrade it dosnt seem like much since 2.4 is out? and all i did was rpm -Uvh *.rpm to do the whole update dir I havnt rebooted yet. Im scared, you think im safe? Im redaing how to upgrade by rpm right now and it is alot harder than rpm -Uvh so that why im scared to reboot, i got no erros while rpming?
 
Old 04-27-2001, 12:48 AM   #4
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Kernel 2.4.1 is out and if you are UK based can be obtained from the free CD given by PC Plus magazine. If you aren't then I'm not too sure where you can get it from - try http://www.linux.org or http://www.linux.com As far as the rest of your query goes I would just boot up and see what happens. If it crashes then just reinstall.
 
Old 05-07-2001, 02:23 PM   #5
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allso

the 7.1 has the drivers for the matrox g450 dual head now which is good news for beginners like me so xwindows works ....
but only one of the screens works Its funny thing because at install both screens were on
cheers
ps
i downloaded RH 7.1 from the RH site 20hrs both cd's at the same time long but I dont regret it
cheers
phil
 
Old 05-07-2001, 02:45 PM   #6
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RH7.1 also has a couple of versions newer of XFree86. That can make a difference.

 
  


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