Red Hat 7.3

JimH · 04-30-2002, 03:47 PM

A Red Hat 7.3 directory has appeared on the ftp sites. ;D We will probably see the release within the next couple of weeks.

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Jim H

Bogler · 05-02-2002, 07:58 AM

Excellent News ;D

Why are there so many iso images? There seem to be 5 of them in the betas recently released, this seems a bit on the hefty side?

Bogler

JimH · 05-02-2002, 03:16 PM

I guess they just keep adding more things. :P One of the biggest reasons is that they eliminated the Powertools cd starting with 7.2 and started to include the "best" packages that were on it in the main distribution.

7.3 will have five cd's CD 4 & CD 5 will be source RPMs. CD 1, CD 2, and CD 3 will be the binary rpms. All 3 will be needed for a full install.

Jim H

JimH · 05-02-2002, 05:36 PM

Hard to keep anything secret these days. I saw this on USENET.

Mirror admins: Red Hat 7.3 will release on May 6th. In preparation of making
the latest release of Red Hat Linux available to the mirrors. We'll be
doing basically the same thing we did with the beta
release. We will prestage all the ISOs to give mirrors a change to get
the ISOs, and then pushing the exploded trees out separately.

Please note, none of the content should be made available prior to May 6th.
We'll send out another message when the exploded trees are placed on the
mirror hosts, and another reminder when you can open read access to the
world.

I didn't expect it until at least the 13th. We will see if this is true.

Jim H

JimH · 05-06-2002, 02:12 PM

RedHat 7.3 is OUT! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Downloading the ISO's now. Hopefully I can get to the store before the download is done and hopefully they have it.

Jim H

**trommaster** · 05-06-2002, 09:23 PM

good as

but.... is it enough for me to change....:P

JimH · 05-07-2002, 02:20 AM

OK I just finished installing 7.3. ;D No problems with the install; went smoooooth! 8)

Off to play. ;D I will let you know if I find any problems.

Jim H

JimH · 05-07-2002, 02:26 AM

Originally Posted by alastair

good as

but.... is it enough for me to change....:P

Alastair what Linux distribtuion are you running now?

Jim H

**trommaster** · 05-07-2002, 07:10 AM

Mandrake 8.1
im thinking of changing but can't make up my mind to slack, deb, rh or something different like gentoooooooooooooo
anyone care to elignten me.......
.....
no wait....
......
[me=alastair]goes and reads countless GLO Threads on what distro to choose[/me]
Ill get there....... :-\

mountainman · 05-08-2002, 03:12 PM

I and One of my friends tried to install 7.3 last night. It was anything BUT smooth. My install got about 9 packages into and took a dump. He tried to upgrade from 7.2 which didnt work, and ended up formatting and starting from scratch. It did eventually install on his system. Anyone had probs with it like this?