[LUG] Interesting - RedHat 6.2

[Jon Still <jon at termisoc.org>]

Couple of interesting things I discovered about RedHat 6.2 today.

1.  The reason the HOWTOs aren't on hte main CD any more is because there
is a documentation CD-ROM.  I guess they're trying to keep the core distro
to one CD.  More stuff is getting moved out to the powertools CD as well.

2.  If you specify a windows (FAT) partition in the graphical version of
disk druid, you can install to a loopback filesystem.  Basically, your
entire filesystem (and you can only have one) is stored in C:\redhat.img
(and a similar file for swap).  You then boot from floppy to use this
system (you have to boot from floppy - lilo is not an option).  It's
noticeably slower (and redhat do warn you of this), but it's a great way
of trying without having to repartition.

J.

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