Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:44:51 07/21/99
Go up one level in this thread
On July 21, 1999 at 06:36:02, Gunnar Andersson wrote: >On July 21, 1999 at 01:34:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Just because you (Vincent) haven't sold a linux version yet is totally, >>100% meaningless, in the world of computing. Linux is now the most installed >>unix system around. Companies like RedHat have streamlined the installation >>via CD to the point that beginners (even students) are getting it up in no >>time at all... > >Depends on what you want to do and what you mean by "beginner"; I've been using >various PC OSes sice 1986 and Unix (Solaris) since 1990 but have during the >eight months I've been experimenting with RedHat 5.2 not been able to use either >the modem or the soundcard. RH installation supposedly takes care of this but >they still don't work. Digging into the documentation and fooling around with >minicom etc didn't help me either. > >I really like Linux and would like to use it more but the fact that I can't even >configure my rather standard system keeps me from doing this. you are using a version over 1 year old. 6.0 uses the new 2.2 kernels. And the installation works well. I took a group of non-linux users and explained how/why to partition the disk, turned them loose, and within 30 minutes they had redhat 6 up, X-windows up, and the network interface up... > >Of course the reason for my failure might be that I'm a complete klutz but the >answers I got from comp.os.linux.setup didn't help me (and were sometimes >contradictory). > >/ Gunnar
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.