On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:10:57 -0500 Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 27 March 2003 18:54 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > > I've tinkered with Slack before; it may have been my first distro as > > well (searches through the cobwebs; way back in the 386 days). This > > time I'll bug (not too hard, right?) enough people on the list to > > get it working properly. > > Actually I remember that Slackware came up easily the first time I > tried it back in 1994 or so... and I had two SCSI controllers in my > machine and I remember having to give the boot process for the install > the parameters for the 2nd controller. But they had a good booklet > that came with the distro that explained all that. Seems pretty > fantastic now what with all the problems people (and myself) can run > into trying to do an install... > > Good luck! > > And as a PS... right after getting Slack installed I tried RH at > around 4.3? Had some problems and it took 6 weeks to get a response > out of their support... by that time it was in the trash. :-) > > Never have been able to have much success with RH since. > RH 4.3 is the only RH distro I've tried, and it worked reliably for me. As was the case with any distro other than gentoo (debian doesn't count because I never made the effort to understand the distro), I got tired of searching for and retrofitting software (RPM hell, etc.). It would never occur to me to look for support with the vendor; that's what we're all for!!! Even Caldera in it's heyday wasn't very responsive with support. -- Collins _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
