On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 03:05:09PM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > Ja, a little more research on Google leads me to the same conclusion. > Looks like I'm in for a re-install... or maybe it's time to purchase a > new disk and just install a new distro. That will be this week's new fun > thing to do, and I can guarantee the next distro will not be Red Hat.
It's sad, I liked them from 4.0 up to 6.whatever... they totally lost me with 7. I got a cheapbytes debian CD, then spent a few minutes getting the hang of dselect, configured it to use online sources, and (with a cable modem) updated everything to debian unstable in a couple hours. Having done that, I don't know if I'd recommend unstable to others. I've had a couple minor annoyances, and one update that made the system unbootable (thank god for boot floppies). The "testing" distro might be better. If I were you, I'd take the opportunity to go to a journaling filesystem too, at least for /home. I did reiserfs, but ext3 would probably be easier to do. I haven't seen a forced fsck since I did that... -- Paul Winkler home: http://www.slinkp.com "Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!"
