On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 06:16:10PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > So I guess I have no Linux system now. Scratch everything and try again in a > month or so. > Maybe 2.2 will install OK, but I must admit I'm beginning to doubt it. I've > been trying, on > and off, to get Linux working for about 5 years, but my 21 years experience > in this business > just isn't enough. > > Sometimes I envy all you Linux gurus (=people who have got Linux installed > OK) out there, > it must be really nice to have cracked the puzzle. Maybe I'll solve it when > Linux reaches > its 10th birthday, and woody is stable, who knows? I'm not being sarcastic, > BTW, just a > little frustrated...
hang in there. i spoze lots depend on your particular peculiarities among your components (ethernet cards, memory vendor, motherboard, yada yada) but debian was the firs linux i encountered (in 2.1 slink days, back in april) that installed and was up and running with no fuss. i'm hanging with it in 2.2/potato-ville because of the things i read about apt-get versus, well, nothing else like it out there. i bought the 2.1 slink cd (2-cd set) as part of the linuxmall.com megapack where you get 11 cd's (8 distros, i think) for $29 or so. (also hadta get a tux plush doll for my schmoopie, but she doesn't appreciate him as much as i do.) i also know of folks who have troubles similar to what you mention. if you get the new cd's and it doesn't work, maybe something else similar will. better than resorting to microso~1, at least.
