 | | | The most stupid certification program!! | The most stupid certification program!! 2005-06-06 - By Kathy Bieltz
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William,
I can see why Mr. Regatta was frustrated. The RedHat certificate
site said his hardware was supported with RHEL 3, not the
latest updated version of RHEL 3. When RedHat adds hardware
certification information to their site it would be helpful is they
indicated the version AND update level.
I like Mr. Regatta, try to get all the drivers and update information
before I upgrade while I still have a working system.
Then I do a fresh install of the boxed version I bought and apply
updates and build drivers so I can get the basic system working.
Then I logon to RHN to apply remaining updates.
Not having a supported NIC card makes it a little hard to connect to
RHN to get updates. I have a generic supported NIC card I keep handy just
so I can use it to download drivers and updates for an NIC card
that is unsupported out of the box.
Not everyone has the equipment to burn new ISO's for their
fresh installs.
Kathy Bieltz
William Warren wrote:
> interesting. The list usually assumes you would be using the latest
> isos anyway since they are part of your entitlement. This appears to
> be an operator error not an error by RedHat. Anytime you do an
> install you should check to make sure you have the latest isos which
> is something you apparently did not do in the two cases you mentioned.
>
> regatta wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> We want to install Redhat WS 3 in a Dell workstation Precision 370 and
>> before we start I check the hardware certificate site
>> (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/hwcert/show.cgi?id=148490) and greate, I
>> found it's supported and certified with Redhat WS 3
>>
>> and now after spending 2 weeks trying to install it using Redhat WS 3
>> no update and also update 1 I found in order to enable the NIC card
>> with Redhat WS 3 I must use update 2 at less !!
>>
>> this is a stupid, why you saying it's supported by Redhat WS 3, why
>> don't you mention that I have to use update 2 in order to use all the
>> machine functions !!!
>>
>> I lost 2 weeks and as you know for business, time is MONEY!!!
>>
>> this is not the first time I face this problem with your certification
>> program, for example, with Optrion AMD machine I spent 1 months just
>> to know that in order to make the machine stable I have to use update
>> 4 !!! (and I again, your website doesn't say anything about that!!)
>>
>>
>
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