Kirk, when you install Redhat, you're given choices to choose which packages (individually) you want to install. Don't you dare to dissellect the package that is dependent on some other package, and you're in trouble. Of course, if you sellected default install, Redhat will decide for you, but isn't that the case with all default installations? Best, Vic ******* ******* ******* have you thought of visiting Cybertsar's Internet Kingdom? It is still alive! Here is the URL: http://nimbus.ocis.temple.edu/~vtsaran/ ******* ******* ******* ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Wood" <cpt.kirk@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 8:49 PM Subject: Re: down for the count > Without trying to slam anyone, I would not take an install problem on one > machine to mean much. I also wouldn't take a lack of install problem to > mean much. I can truthfully say I have never had a problem installing > Winblows 3.x on a machine (and did it many times). Anyone care to say it > is superior? > > I have had trouble with a Slackware install. But I also worked through > said install. As for the problems in maintaining RedHat, I think the > problem that some run into is trying too hard. I have installed both RPM > and the compile thing. For some, RPM is easier. For others, it will lead > to problems later. (Domn, that is starting to sound like so many other > things with computers and life in general.) But for most things, there are > straight forward tools to do your configuration for you. My complaint > about RedHat is that you get many things installed that you don't know > about. Then again, I think that a great thing would be a database with all > dependancies listed for each package. Yea, I know RPMs provide that (in > theory). But there is no tool (for any distro I have seen) that allows one > to plan ahead seeing all dependancies and configure the system to install > just the way you want it minus perhaps the settings. > > I think going with a preconfigured machine is a good idea. It won't take > any longer to wipe out the installed OS then if you get one with > Winblows. I mean really, fdisk covers a multitude of sins. If you know you > are going to run linux and that is an option for the machine it makes > sense. You can always blow it away and install a different distro. (And > you can later do the same thing to that distro. I know it is obvious, but > too often it is forgotten.) > > -- > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > ------------------ > > Seek simplicity -- and distrust it. > Alfred North Whitehead > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
