On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 06:21 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 09:16 +0100, Philip Wyett wrote:
If it was a server where uptime was important then use of telinit would be appropriate. But not many folks install the proprietary nvidia driver on servers and for workstations or laptops reboots don't really matter. Describing it as bad practice is ridiculous.
Very nice howto with the exception of the reboot advice. It is somewhat short of ridiculous to describe unnecessary reboots as bad practice IMHO. Newbies would be well served to see that one of the [many] great advantages of Linux over Redmond OSs is the absence of the perpetual reboot cycle. Rebooting for every change is way too windows-like for my taste, and I have workstation (and server) machines that regularly go months without a reboot in the absence of kernel updates.
For server and uptime I totally agree, but for workstations and laptops I see a couple of boots as no great shakes. I wrote the howto in 10 minutes to give a straight through way to do a good install that has the least amount of chance of side affects and geared towards the total newbie. I feel adding multiple ways of doing one thing in a howto as a way to possibly confuse. This is why I did not go into depth with telinit.
I won't do the turn your workstations and laptops off when your not using them to save the planet. :-D
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One other viable choice IS to use 3rd party repos, which may be easier for a newbie as well as being consistent with frequent advice to use RPM packages on an RPM-based system. I have had very good experience with ATrpms nVidia kmdl packages; although I'd recommend against using Axel's packages wholesale for a stable CentOS system. The yum includepkgs directive is quite useful here.
Third party repos I have seen on many a mailing become a problem when the repo falls behind the latest kernel release. Indeed this method has its merits but there are a few pitfalls also.
Should I spend more of my time writing all the possible options just to make some people happy - Not a chance, I've got plenty of other non and CentOS related work to do!
I hear you. Perhaps someone can find time to build on this for a WiKi article. Will take a crack at it if I can find the time. :-)
That would be good. The current one in the wiki does not really help anyone.
[other] Phil
Regards
Phil