Gene Heskett wrote:
3 more installs later I still don't have a usable x-server like I had with the first install, seems the nv driver doesn't support 32 bit, nor 1600x1200 screens, suddenly??. And x-server problems notwithstanding, the last two installs have set eth0 up with only an ipv6 style address, and of course I have no networking. yum of course loves that...
I don't set up as an expert, but it seems to me that the changes you are making are too comprehensive. You would be better off pausing a little longer, and trying to work out why one particular thing is not working.
For example, if I had a problem with X I would try installing in text mode, and then try to set up X later, using one of the several tools available.
I've never understood your problems with /dev/hda and /dev/hdb . I think that normally the computer will try to boot from /dev/hda unless you have told the BIOS otherwise. But if you install grub on the /dev/hda MBR it can certainly find partitions on /dev/hdb .
As for IPv6, I think you can disable this by adding IPV6INIT=no to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or whatever) and saying "service network restart" as root. (Or you could remove the IPv6 module from /lib/modules/<version>/ .)