I would add support for disk drive or SCSI controller on the new Intel m/bs, as well. Intel is only supporting RH8.0 and up. We are sticking w/7.3 for stability, for now. RH AS is a little too spending for our implementations, while 7.3 delivers the functionality we need. JJL -----Original Message----- From: John Beamon [mailto:jbeamon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 2:01 PM To: Kickstart List Subject: any news of a new RH release? This is a tiny bit of a tangent, but it's relevant for me right now, sitting at my desk in THIS project. I'm kickstarting a Dell PE1650, and they come with e1000 gigabit ethernet cards, which are not supported in the version of bootnet.img that I'm using. Like so many others, I'm still rolling servers on 7.3 because it's proven, lightweight, and stable by comparison. Many of us did not upgrade our servers to 8 because we were waiting for "8.1", which would fix a large percentage of 8's inevitable bugs. Smart people don't upgrade production to a "dot-0" release. I know that the entire kickstart system has been rewritten. XML, cd iso images instead of floppies, the works. Today, May 16, I'm still tweaking my knowledge of 7.3. By the end of the year, I plan on rolling our enterprise up to 9.x, whatever release number is stable at the time. That means that I will *have to* learn the new kickstart system by year's end, including any customizations I need to do like adding e1000 drivers and whatnot. I'm an RHCE, and this is still a significant challenge and workload for me. I'd appreciate some advance warning. Asking anyone with "@redhat.com" in their sig: 1. When can we expect at least a rumor of 9.1? 2. Can we expect Red Hat to offer an http server option that includes the set of modules and features that we've come to know and love over the years? It's immaterial to me whether RH contributes to the apache-2 module base or allows us the option of installing a maintained apache-1.3.x package. I'm already rolling my own rpm's of at least a dozen different packages for feature sets we need. We "need" apache-1.3.x. 3. A repost from a couple days ago that has gone completely untouched... is there a feature analogous to "lilocheck" in kickstart that is applicable to Red Hat's default bootloader for the last THREE production releases? In my meager experience, lilocheck has not halted for the presence of grub on the MBR. If I'm missing something or holding my mouth wrong when I do it, please just let me know. Thanks. I look forward to a reply with eager anticipation. John
