Problem installing Red Hat linux 7.2

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John:

The real thrust of my point is that it looks like this shop she's picked 
doesn't know a damm thing about Linux. So, why should they get paid to 
install something they know nothing about? What will be the quality of 
that install, especially from a blind person's view?



On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Janina,
> I know that Barb wants BRLTTY. Whoever is doing the installation should 
> download it as soon as the installation is finished, read the 
> installation documentation that comes with the download, and have it up 
> quickly. That's the way I did it with my Linux.
> John
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Janina 
> Sajka wrote:
> 
> > If I were you, I'd seriously consider giving my business to some else.
> > 
> > 1.)	Who chose the hardware that you're buying? Did this shop choose 
> > it? If so, and they new you wanted Linux, then they should choose another 
> > mother board. This is simply irresponsible. It's an attempt to get a few 
> > more dollars from you for no good reason. Devices which are known to work 
> > with Linux are well documented on the net. A professional shop should know 
> > how to pick appropriate hardware. If they don't know how, they're not 
> > worth the money you're spending with them. Give it to a competitor that 
> > does know how.
> > 
> > 2.)	If they're installing RH 7.2 they are doing you another 
> > disservice. Red Hat is currently at 7.3 and has been since mid April. If 
> > they don't know that, and don't know how to deal with it, give your 
> > business to someone who does. Don't pay them to do what they don't know 
> > how to do.
> > 
> > 3.)	I suspect you want Speakup and/or other accessibility support in 
> > your system. Is this shop aware of how to do this? At least one competitor 
> > of their's is, and there may be others.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Barbara J Wagreich wrote:
> > 
> > > HI:
> > > 
> > > i'm having a new PC custom built for me.  It already has DOS, Window s98,
> > > and Windows 2000 installed on it.  It is a 2GHZ Pentium 4 machine using an
> > > ABIT motherboard.  I just received this message from the person who is
> > > building it for me:
> > > 
> > > I've run into a problem with Linux.  Linux does not appear to support the
> > > IDE RAID controller, at least for booting.  The IDE RAID controller does
> > > not
> > > support CD-ROMs or ZIP drives.  The only way around this seems to be
> > > moving
> > > the hard drive to the main IDE controller in parallel with one of the
> > > other
> > > drives, but this is undesirable for performance reasons.  An alternative
> > > would be to install a second hard drive just for Linux (it would still
> > > result in reduced performance for that drive).
> > > 
> > > Any comments on this?  Is it possible to install Red Hat Linux 7.2 sothat
> > > the mail IDE controller is not used?  Are there any other recommended
> > > solutions?
> > > 
> > > this person feels it would be better to install linux on an older machine
> > > by itself.  I don't really have room for the machine.  It is a 7-year old
> > > machine and has the original Pentium chip with a speed of 100mhz.  The
> > > current disk drive is a small 2GB SCSI disk and we would probably ahve to
> > > get an IDE disk.  I was hoping to have all three operating systems ont he
> > > same machine tos ave space.
> > > 
> > > I'd welcome any feedback you may have on this subject.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Barb
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > 
> > > Blinux-list@redhat.com
> > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org





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