Re: Is my old RedHat computer doomed?

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:51:02 +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote:

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:49:01 +0100, Daniel James wrote:

I should be very interested to know whether an initial boot from the
hard drive gives you the option to refuse the Vista licence (and
reclaim some of its cost from Lenovo) as you apparently can with some
other new PCs.

I'll see what it does just before I boot from the F9 DVD. If there's any
option to get a refund on the M$ tax I'll take it.

Following up:

Got the machine today and booted into Vista first. Badly designed initial
dialogue: if you hit Next without accepting either license ('doze and
hardware) it tells you that you can't install without acceptance, that
Lenovo MIGHT offer a refund on Vista and doesn't give any way to reboot,
that I could find anyway, without completing the Vista install. Once that
was done I could force a reboot into the F9 installer by shutting Vista
down.

Sneaky swine.

Once past that I only found one installer bug: after testing the DVD
all attempts to carry on with the install just got the single word 'Error'.
It was easily fixed with a reboot, but was still a surprising irritation.
After that the install was smooth.

I've since found a couple more snags:
- with SELinux enabled the Network Configuration tool and the taskbar
applet seemed to fight and I was unable to configure or enable ETH0.
Disabling SELinux fixed that.

- The default AC power management settings cause a warning that closing
the lid won't stop the machine and it may fry itself.
It doesn't matter whether I set the AC lid closed action to Suspend or
Hibernate - the effect is the same - the machine beeps three times and
fails to shut down, though the screen does lock.

Has anybody else seen this? If so, has it been bugged?
By the time I found this I'd run a yum update, so this applies to a
fully updated copy of F9. I haven't yet installed anything nonstandard,
e.g. my own stuff and Sun's Java, or switched from sendmail to Postfix.


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