"Troy A. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> Perry Hoekstra wrote:
> >
> > Greet the sun all,
> >
> > So far, I am only batting .500 on attempts to install/upgrade RH6.2 on
> > my various machines.  On my database server, the installation croaks
> > trying to detect my mouse.
> 
> I ran into this when installing RH6.0, and the quick and dirty solution
> was to "Alt+F2" (or was it "Alt+F3") to the command prompt (bash, I
> think) and then "ps auxw | grep mouse" and "kill -9" the "mousecfg" (or
> something close) process. 

How do you restart the process?  When it hits the mouse config portion,
it thinks for a moment and then the screen goes black like the entire
process goes belly up.

> The install was flawless _after_ this, and the
> mouse was properly configured when rebooted (for X). No, this wasn't in
> the installation guide. ;-)
> 
> I wouldn't discourage you from installing Debian on these boxes, but if
> Red Hat is required for some reason, I thought this might help. Good
> luck,

I would prefer to have RH on the db server box only because that is the
distribution Oracle likes.

-- 
Perry Hoekstra
E-Commerce Architect
Talent Software Services
dutchman at mn.uswest.net

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