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redhat 6.1 (fr?), install 766MB, df 900MB, 35min (asked for all groups except "everything")
upgrade to redhat 6.2, sum 757MB, df 936MB, 20min
mandrake 7.1, install 755MB, df 1091MB, 17min (asked install size 910MB), 515 packages
upgrade to cooker, sum 1000MB, df 1404MB, 35min
redhat 7.0b, install 815MB, df 960MB, 18min
redhat 7.0, install 995MB, df MB, 26min
7.2b, 3.3GB 2h26
7.2b: (lang fr)
compssLevel df rpm time fs df/time
100 64 59 0:59 ext2 500M 1.08
90 132 127 1:50 ext2 500M 1.20
80 226 218 3:26 ext2 500M 1.10
70 449 387 5:52 ext2 1G 1.28
60 614 541 8:36 ext2 1G 1.19
50 1113 943 17:40 ext2 2G 1.05
40 1193 1013 20:39 ext2 2G 0.96
30 1262 1072 22:28 ext2 2G 0.94
20 1445 1219 27:34 ext2 2G 0.87
10 1649 1394 36:58 ext2 2G 0.74
0 1943 1638 48:02 ext2 2G 0.67
-10 2957 2519 101:49 ext2 4G 0.48
7.2b: (lang all)
compssLevel df rpm time fs df/time
100 70 59 1:04 ext2 500M 1.09
90 289 281 4:20 ext2 500M 1.11
80 373 361 5:41 ext2 500M 1.09
70 890 794 13:28 ext2 1G 1.10
mem used 7.2cooker
gtk: runinstall2 13608(data 9572) + FBDev 2984(data 1544)
newt: runinstall2 9516(data 7528)
stdio: runinstall2 9160(data 7372)
8.0rc1: (lang fr)
rpmsrate
4 () 175 139 3:25 reiserfs 2G 0.85
4 all 831 786 18:08 reiserfs 2G 0.76
8.1b
5 () 77 66 1:24 ext2 300M
8.1pre_rc1 rpm df time/rpm rpm/df
6 () 82 66 1:26 ext2 500M 1.05 1.24
5 () 89 71 1:38 ext2 500M 1.10 1.25
3 () 94 77 1:46 ext2 500M 1.13 1.22
5 X 145 127 2:09 ext2 500M 0.89 1.14
3 X 231 217 3:26 ext2 500M 0.89 1.06
4 kde 393 316 4:31 ext2 2G 0.69 1.24
4 kde 393 316 4:41 ext2 2G 0.72 1.24
4 kde 393 316 4:43 ext2 4G 0.72 1.24
5 all 367 337 5:02 ext2 500M 0.82 1.09
4 kde+gnome 454 370 5:50 ext2 4G 0.77 1.23
4 kde+gnome 454 370 6:10 ext2 4G 0.81 1.23
4 kde+gnome 454 370 6:24 ext2 4G 0.85 1.23
5 all 489 406 5:55 ext2 4G 0.73 1.20
5 all 490 406 5:18 ext2 1G 0.65 1.21
4 kd+gn+dsk 594 494 7:31 ext2 4G 0.76 1.20
4 prev+dev 827 696 10:27 ext2 4G 0.76 1.19
4 all 1100 988 19:34 ext2 1G 1.07 1.11
3 all 1640 1331 31:33 ext2 2G 1.15 1.23
3 all 1740 1434 39:38 ext2 4G 1.37 1.21
2 all 2252 1843 54:40 ext2 4G 1.46 1.22
-1 all 2490 2048 61:02 ext2 4G 1.47 1.22
# perl -alpe '$F[4] =~ /(.*):(.*)/; $r = ($1 * 60 + $2) / $F[2]; s|\S+(\s+\S+)\s*$|sprintf("%.2f", $r) . "$1"|e;'
# perl -ape '$r = $F[2] / $F[3]; s|\S+\s*$|sprintf "%.2f\n", $r|e;'
9.0beta1
5 () 89 71 1:35 ext2 500M
3 X 240 231 3:41 ext2 500M
5 all 306 293 3:36 ext2 500M
4 all 808 731 6:48 ext2 1G
4 all 1433 1331 21:44 ext2 2G
4 X+kde 822 749 6:05 ext2 2G
4 X+gnome 369 319 5:58 ext2 2G
redhat 7.3:
- do not halt the box when "halt" is used
- no sysreq
- kdm has gnome entry whereas gnome is not installed
=> choosing gnome gives a flashing black screen and kdm reruns
- repartition of packages on various CDs is crap
- bootloader: handling of multiple disks is more powerful in redhat, but more
dangerous (proposed to everyone, but not proposed especially to people having
a dangerous combinaison)
- why still asking about lba32!!
* anaconda 7.3 vs 7.3.92
- skipddc option (locks some machines) ??
maybe because it's done at the beginning of their install?
- LVM
- lvm_dialog_gui.py
- Physical Extent 1MB 2MB 4MB ... 16GB
(vgcreate -s ${PhysicalExtentSize}k)
- see lvm_sanity_checks.txt, take them
- lvm on / (mkinitrd)
- handle upgrade when lvm on /
- vgcreate -An (ie --autobackup no) ??
(also for lvcreate vgchange lvremove
- see clampPVSize in lvm.py
- RAID
- Number of spares ??
- mkraid --dangerous-no-resync ??
- progress bar in ext2 formatting
- ctrl-alt-suppr during install => reboots
- user names: the regexp is [a-zA-Z][^\0-\x20:,\n]* or [A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]{0,7} (depending on wether you're in text mode or graphic mode :)
- check the user name created is not a system one (see systemUsers)
- SMB authentification
- cloneDrive ?
- edd dropped (was to detect lba32 capability, which was dumb)
- reconfig type of installed removed (was something between install & upgrade)
- ddcprobe code removed -> moved to kudzu
changes: sigprocmask and movl added around lrmi_vm86
- $ENV{GDK_USE_XFT} = 0
* kudzu 0.99.52 vs 0.99.55
- blacklisting modules.pcimap e100 and bcm5700
* hwdata 0.14 vs 0.32
- dropped XFree86 3.3.6 support
- upgradelist: list of (old_module => new_module) for upgrades
(a simpler way would be to drop entries in modules.conf that concern
obsolete (and not available anymore) modules, relying on auto-detection to
add the new one)
- CardMonitorCombos (for laptops)
redhat 8.0:
(legend: + pros - cons / notice)
Install steps difference
+ firewall wizard
+ md5sum check when booting install
- no upgrade packages installation during install
- no services configuration (chkconfig)
- no printer configuration
- no autologin
- no real small installation
- no small packages (groff-for-man, perl-base...)
/ still propose non-MD5 or non-shadow passwords
/ post install tool (firstconfig)
General install behaviour, eye-candiness
+ package selection a la Windows
+ in language selection languages displayed in native language
+ candy timezone selection
+ help uses bold/italic/big-font
- no one CD install
/ not using fb at install
/ python + gtk2 vs perl + gtk
/ ask many things before doing anything (esp. delayed partitioning, swap not available when selecting packages!(?))
- more width-hard-coded dialog boxes (harder for translations)
/ use a loopback file from the CD then copied on system
Partitioning
- no diskdruid after install
- no partitioning wizard
- no devfs
- no xfs (but now has reiserfs/jfs)
- no loopback crypted fs
- no file swap (?)
- no supermount
+ LABELed entries in fstab
+ progress bar while formatting
Bootloader
+ bootloader configuration less awkward
- no automatic handling of bios ordering with many harddrives
- propose to manually change bios ordering even with one harddrive
- LBA32 checkbox
/ defaults to grub
Network
- awkward question apropos hostname when using DHCP
- no default choice for netmask/gateway/DNS based on IP
XFree
- no wacom configuration
- no graphic card multi-head configuration
- no ATI tvout configuration
- no prompt for logout after changing X config
- VideoRam prompted for everybody
/ no XFree3
/ no Utah GLX
/ load module "fbdevhw" "record", but not "v4l"
/ always load module "glx" and "dri"
Keyboard
- many non useful keyboard entries (eg: latin0)
- no way to choose the toggle key to choose between latin/non-latin keyboard
- no loadkeys done during install for console
Mouse
- no way to test mouse choice
- mouse choices include many non-useful choices, badly sorted
(Intellimouse must be sought in Microsoft whereas it's used by many others)
Multimedia
- no bttv configuration (including webcams)
- missing audio modules (alsa, audigy...)
* anaconda 8.0 (rel. 4) vs 8.0.92
- use vte instead of gnome.zvt
- add alpha (axp) partitioning code
- remove label "nofb" and options "devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216" from syslinux.cfg
- edd (ddc probe) moved to kudzu
- add "-Odir_index" option to ext3 tunefs
- screenshoting in directory /root/anaconda-screenshots/ instead of using exported display
- assembler code change in cpuid, smp.c
- there is some code to read the "raid superblock" (see doGetRaidSuperblock in isys/isys.c)
- new code for choosing to upgrade or not
- hack to remove /var/lib/rpm/__db.00[123] (with comment "make sure that the rpmdb doesn't have stale locks :/")
* anaconda 8.0.92 vs 8.0.93 (rel. 0.20030108205243)
- drop xmode (bring up text mode in a remote xterm)
- code available to check the ability to do a mkbootdisk
(check size of vmlinuz + initrd, check size of floppy)
- drop "-Odir_index" option to ext3 tunefs
(with comment "add back -Odir_index when htree is safe")
- waitForLink added to loader2/net.c using added ethtool thingy (get_ethtool_link_status, get_link_status)
- OS390 fdasd & z/IPL changes
- for kickstart, new option "--ignoremissing", (there were --ignoredeps and --resolvedeps)
- /usr/kerberos/lib in LD_LIBRARY_PATH
- these are symlinks so you cant make them mount points
otherexcept = ['/var/mail', '/usr/bin/X11', '/usr/lib/X11', '/usr/tmp']
elif self.mountpoint in otherexcept:
return _("The mount point %s cannot be used. It must "
"be a symbolic link for proper system "
"operation. Please select a different "
"mount point.") % (self.mountpoint,)
* hwdata 0.47 (redhat 8.0) vs 0.62 (redhat 8.1 beta1 phoebe)
- pcitable & upgradelist
- replace eepro100 with e100
- switch 0x1106 0x3059 "via82cxxx_audio" to "unknown"
- Cards
- remove most swcursor with comment:
# mharris - Nov 23, 2002 - Commented out the swcursor option, if it is still
# needed, then lets disable it right in the driver completely, or possibly
# fix it.
- using driver "nv" for GeForce4 and Quadro4 with comment:
# mharris - Nov 23, 2002 - enabling "nv" driver for GeForce 4 and Quadro 4 as
# CVS XFree86 support them now in 4.2.99.2
- special options "externDisp" and "internDisp" for NeoMagic cards
together with CHIPSET
* kudzu 0.99.69 (redhat 8.0) vs 0.99.83 (redhat 8.1 beta1 phoebe)
- don't read eepro100 entries from the pcitable
- handle compressed modules
- many changes in PS/2 mouse detection, and handle "intellips/2" mouse
- changes in PnP serial modem detection
- use "udf,iso9660" option for cdrom entry in fstab
(note that comma separated choice of filesystems *is* allowed, though not
documented in fstab(5))
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