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.