On 9 Jun 2003 at 18:34, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Scarletdown wrote: > > On 9 Jun 2003 at 0:05, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > have the most experience with). I may convert my MINIX box into a dual-boot > > MINIX/Slackware system soon though, > > You have a MINIX box? 8)
Well, up until just a few hours ago, I did. I did some upgrades on it in preperation for adding a Linux installation to the system, and decided that it would be best to just go ahead and completely rebuild the MINIX install, since it had been so long since I last tinkered with it. However, I kept getting TAR errors when I would try to run setup /usr After trying it with way too many different floppies, I finally got disgusted with it and decided to just give up on MINIX (after succumbing to Code Rage and flinging the last floppy I tried across the room.) :p > > since with a Slackware setup, I can compile > > packages for FreeSCO. > > I don't see why you wouldn't be able to do the same with RHL. > Slackware seems to be the distro of choice for FreeSCO developers (most likely because FreeSCO is a Slackware derivative.) But, I have given up on Slackware now too. I tried about three times to get it installed properly. Everything seemed to be going fine, and then when I'd reboot, I'd get the dreaded "Unable to boot from hard drive." message, or something to that effect. The boot floppy would get me in just fine, but no matter what I tried (various LILO configurations), the hard drive just would not boot. So now, I have a SuSE 6.1 install in progress on that system. Picked up the SuSE package at Goodwill a couple days ago for a fiver, and figured that this would be a good time to try it out. If I decide I like it, this will be the distro of choice for me for systems that give Red Hat problems (namely, any that have a 3C509b NIC, which I have never been able to get RH to recognize for some reason.) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
