On Wednesday 20 June 2007 16:46, Easwar Hariharan wrote: > > > Though the author of this article managed to setup > > > things on his own (/boot/grub/menu.lst etc.), Tapas > > > had to reboot quite a few times for his boot menu to > > > be displayed with windows. > > > > Dont try installing if you dont know what you are doing. > > > > > > Apart from that, none of > > > > > the other hdd partitions were automatically detected > > > and mounted. > > > > > > This is not an intent to flame, but rather caution new > > > users trying to install Fedora 7. > > > > New users should not be installing anything anyway. Least of all > > a full blown linux distro not designed for a newbie desktop user. > > I beg to differ,being a newbie doesn't disqualify you from > experimenting on your computer
I agree completely. I will rephrase my statement. new users should expect their first few installs to be disasters even with stable distros on known working hardware, until they have understood the install intricacies. I am cribbing about the author claiming to have done a large number of installs, and expecting that an unstable distro will produce the same results as the earlier ones. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
