I have spent many years installing MSDOS, Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, NT and
Applications. I had never used Unix or Linux until I installed Red Hat
4.2 and I have a home built PC with all manner of mismatched hardware.
I performed the installation without reading much in the way of
documentation and having no sets of hardware notes handy (a bad habit I
know).
Result? Complete happiness. Red Hat install coped with all the odd
settings of my PC, started a solid multitasking OS from a floppy and
installed quickly and easily on my PC. The only time I had to resort to
assistance was for the X Windows setup - I easily found a HOWTO and off
I went. Oh, yes, it was an order of magnitude faster than any MS OS or
Application install.
I recently upgraded to RH5.0 with a similarly fast and simple process -
but the new and improved install engine.
I now spend my time discovering just how much functionality has arrived
on my PC - including all the extras which I despaired of ever having on
my 95 system (like the apache web server which magically appeared behind
the scenes).
Well done Red Hat - a marvellous and robust install process!
Simon J. Williams
Tel.: Manchester, 0161 4919125 (Work),
Wigan, 01942 203485 (Home),
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message-----
From: Trenton D. Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 20 April 1998 07:22
To: RedHat List
Subject: RedHat 5.0 install sucks
As did RH 4.2 install, 5.0 sucks as well. I don't know why they make
them
so terribly, but they do. I tried to upgrade my system. I only had
about
40 megs free. RH 5.0 upgrade tried to install 220M when I didn't tell
it
too. It just said that it had found the packages that needed to be
upgraded. I did not install 220 megs of packages on my 4.2 install.
Why
does it do this? Another thing that sucks is that it doesn't auto
detect if
you have enough HD space, it just goes ahead until it has an error. Now
I
tried to reinstall completely without an upgrade, and it doesn't install
"pico".
You would think that if RH was going to take on such a project as
customizing linux, they would at least have a good install
program!!!!!!!
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