Hi Anirban, I have already replied to Indrada's mail. Please suggest some solutions. Thanks in advance,
Sourangshu On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Anirban Biswas. wrote: > Hi , > > Yes MDK supports RPMS based distro. I do not know if it provides it , but the > probability is low since GRUB is Redhats favourite. But what problems do you > have with lilo . Try to load /boot partition before 10 GB in your hdd & force > lba32 mode insteed linear in the lilo.conf , the problems may be solved. > > > Anirban Biswas. > > > > > On Monday 25 Nov 2002 10:49, Sourangshu Bhattacharya wrote: > > Hi Joydeep ( or anybody else), > > Does MDK support rpm based distribution ? also, what are boot loaders > > provided. in my computer, lilo messes it all up and i have to load linux > > with loadlin. > > > > Thanks > > > > Sourangshu > > > > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Joydeep Bakshi wrote: > > > Dear Anindya, > > > nice to know that u have got the cds finally. I am also using RH since > > > last 3yrs. > > > but the worst thing in RH that the later versions always avoid the cooler > > > and helpful applet of it's previous. specially the disk space checking > > > applet of GNOME is not present in RH8. I also fully agree with u that the > > > menus are changed totally and I don't support it. again mpg123 is not > > > there. nor any vcd player. > > > > > > I have tested MDK first time with MDK9. it is just great. by the way MDK > > > is specially tuned for Pentium processor. so it runs faster on the > > > Pentium machine. but u can get the speed in any distro. if u compile the > > > kernel based on ur h/w. atleast I also do this. MDK totally based on RH. > > > but with a polished look and u get some vcd players there which is not > > > available in RH. (u have to download those for RH ) . Finally RH Linux is > > > known widely than MDK and almost all the books are based on RH Linux. > > > > > > My xwindow appears very poor in RH8. since this distro has the Xfree86 > > > server version 4. there is no support for my vga (which is a little bit > > > old) so I have to use VESA driver. but MDK9 has both version 4 and 3.3.6 > > > of xfree86 so for X , MDK gives just a fine support in case of mine. > > > > > > ALSA is present in MDK9 but not in RH. So I am also in a serious time to > > > decide what distro. to use. I have no idea about debian but heard about > > > its superiority over RH, MDK or any other distro. of linux. Siddhartha > > > also say so. before taking the final decision I want to test the deb.. > > > also. > > > > > > happy linuxing > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >--- Joydeep Bakshi, > > > Computer Society of India, > > > The Computer Dept. of Gujrati College, > > > Kolkata, > > > India > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >--- > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: anindya chakraborty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:12 AM > > > Subject: [ilug-cal] thanks to siddarthada > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > got RH 8.0 ,mandrake 9.0 and Knoppix from > > > > Siddarthada...9 cds....I always used RedHat..so I was > > > > particularly curious abt 8....though i installed both > > > > Mandrake and RH i felt RH did a bit too much too follow > > > > XP!!!...it changed menu,there is no shortcut for console > > > > which is ofcourse a bit odd .. looks cool but the font > > > > problem remains....mandrake on the other hand is faster.. > > > > atleast in my machine anyways I am goign to give it some > > > > look before i decide ..but thanks to siddarthada....will > > > > try debian from him later.....what you think guys...which > > > > one is better regarding usability..? > > > > > > > > I have 3 ditros as written above so anybody wants to have a > > > > copy may contact me as I have writer so would > > > > like to help. > > > > > > > > comments are welcome, > > > > anindya > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________ > > > > Give your Company an email address like > > > > ravi @ ravi-exports.com. 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