Hi folks, With JPM playing our host,we met at Astral's office this afternoon as planned. The following penguins managed to make it to the place --> JPM, Arup, Indra, Darshan, Rohit, Dwaipayan and friend (sorry! can't seem to recall the name). Hitesh from Astral was also present.... The highlights:-- We found ourselves installing Linux on a Intel PII 400 MHz/128 MB RAM/8 gig HDD machine, which already had Win98 installed on it (and there began our sad saga :-) A custom install of RHL 5.2 from the PCQ Mar'99 CD was unable to create/initialize swap space which had been allocated on /dev/hda12. All attempts at making it work failed. Quite predictibly, the culprit was Win98, which had messed up the partition table so badly that fdisk/cfdisk/disk druid were failing while apprently showing us as having succeeded. Since a custom install was giving so much of problem, I figured that it might be worth a try to do a server install, sure enough it "worked". But it left us -- at least Arup & myself, utterly horrified & disgusted with Redhat's way of doing things. Barring W9x, I fail to recall as when I had seem such farcical stuff. Something good did come out of this endeavor though...we can now safely say that if you are going to do anything serious on you Linux box, particularly if you plan on using X....DON'T USE THE SERVER INSTALLATION OPTION!!! We managed to download & install the latest WindowMaker (0.60)....although the going wasn't so easy. Our attempts to compile Apache with JServ were wonderfully frustrated apparently by the wizardry of the rpm packaging format. It left us pondering wistfully over the good old days of simple .tgz....installing anything was so much easier (ok...you had to know what went where....but knowledge like that has never been known to hurt anybody ;-) We battled on till right till the end before leaving Astral's office at around 10:00 PM.... We left with A REAL BAD FEELING (tm) about the state we left the machine in...sure, most of the stuff is working, but its quite a mess....Arup & I plan to go over again to redo most of it, sometime this week. And now one of the lighter moment, while trying ot setup dialup networking we faught hard to discover why we were unable to connect...our failure was finally located to a modem cable that we had forgotten to connect to the serial port ;-) --Indra. PS. For the sake of truth I must add, that although I have used the plural "we" to describe our actions it was Arup, our resident guru who actually did the work :) Indian Linux User Group -- CALCUTTA Chapter --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mailing List : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web-Site : http://www.ilug-cal.org/ (under construction) Web Page : http://members.tripod.com/ilugcal/ (temporary site) --------------------------------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux -- MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/faq/listfaq.html
