On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, cristian wrote:
> I think if someone want to install from floppies it means he has not a
> CD and/or the download speed from ftp is very slow.
That was the original way of installing Linux.
> Maybe that person can go to a friend and copy the distribution making
> volumes of 1.44M and transporting home with floppies.
That is a stupid idea because it implies another OS. The purpose
of Linux, as well as for the others OSs is to be able to run on a computer
even if it's the only OS.
> Then remaking the original files on his hard-disk and installing from
> hard.It is a problem with the name of the files.Windows or DOs will
> change the name "file.tar.gz" to "file_tar.gz. But the base of the
False. You made that assumption before. Dos won't accept any
name than 8.3 with only '[a-z0-9]' characters (and a couple of the special
characters). vfat has no problem with more dots in the name of the file.
> distribution has filenames supported by dos. And once the base installed
> the other files can be coppied on the linux partition and then change
> the file name to the original file name.
> I did so, many times and it worked fine.
Too much time lost.
> If someone does not like RedHat because is to Winowish I recommand to go
> to Debian who is totally free. But it is also a KDE for Debian and a
> system
> of packages.
Actually it was about SW vs RH. Debian is somehow in the middle.
> As the discussion went so far, I say that the resemblance with Windows
> is not the (only) reason some people preffer RedHat. I like RedHat
> because it does not make a filosofy of installing programmes. There are
What do you undesrtand about 'a philosophy of installing
programs'?
> more important things you can spent time and energy in Linux. And maybe
Like?
> some people like nice shows, and RedHat with KDE is a nice show of
> colors and windows.
What about the resources that are wasted?
> And KDE people are nice because they made for free distributions in tgz.
> rpm. dpkg. for all kind of Linux. And Microsoft is far from such nice
> works.
There are packs that make the conversion between different package
methods. That isn't an issue.
> Cristian Carnutu
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