RedHat Enhancements/Changes for 7.2 and 7.3

Red Hat Linux/x86 7.2 Release Notes

Bootloader

-GRUB is a new bootloader . LILO is still available.

Partitioning

- Disk Druid can now create primary partitions by specifying a cylinder range.

- Disk Druid now supports the ability to specify that a new partition must be created as a primary partition.

- Text mode installations now have support for creating RAID devices.

- Specifying spare drives for RAID devices is now supported.

- The ext3 journaling filesystem is now available.

- Pre-existing filesystems may be selected for reformatting during the installation.

- Pre-existing ext2 filesystems may be migrated to ext3 during installs and upgrades. This process does not affect the data on the filesystem.

- Many additional sanity checks are made against user-created moun points; this should avoid most common problems (such as a '/' mount point of only 5 MB).

Kickstart

- During the installation process, a kickstart file reflecting the user-selected installation options is written to /root/anaconda-ks.cfg.

Miscellaneous

- The drivers.img driver disk image has been split into multiple disk images.

- Rescue mode now prompts before attempting to mount filesystems from the installed system.

- USB floppy devices are now supported during installation.

General Notes

- There are known issues upgrading Red Hat Linux 6.x, 7.0, and 7.1 systems running Ximian GNOME. The issue is caused by version overlap between the official Red Hat Linux RPMs and the Ximian RPMs.

- GNOME has been updated to 1.4 and includes the Nautilus graphical shell.

- The PowerTools CD is no longer being produced.

- Firewall Configuration -- Please note that both 'medium' and 'high' firewall settings will cause RPC-based services (such as NIS or NFS) to be blocked, and thus fail.

- ODBC-support has been added to php, postgresql have been updated to 7.1.2, python interfaces have been added, and perl interfaces updated.

- Several new configuration tools are included. With these tools you can configure:

- network (redhat-config-network)

- time/date (redhat-config-date)

- system control (redhat-config-services)

- users/groups (redhat-config-users)

- The following packages/features are deprecated, and may be removed in a future Red Hat Linux release:

- Netscape 4.x

- Qt 1.x

- KDE v1 compatibility libraries/build environment

- Red Hat Linux 6.x build environment

- Enlightenment window manager

- linuxconf

- ncpfs

- mars_nwe

- XFree86 3.3.x

- kaffe

Kernel Notes

- The kernel now includes the ext3 journalling filesystem. This

- Red Hat Linux will install a kernel optimized for Athlon processors on systems with an Athlon-class CPU.