At 10:04 PM 3/30/99 -0800, you wrote:
>(Russ)---------------------------
>And I am really looking forward to it too.
>------------------------------------
Good.
> I did not get a manuel or
>a boot disk. I didn't think it would be that difficult to make one (my
>Kingdom for a boot disk). I started browsing through the CD and got
>more and more confused (I couldn't find the bathroom).
Making a boot disk is a little different for this than it is for dos. Look
in the dosutils(?) directory for a program named rawwrite. This copies an
image intoa floppy for you. The boot image, and a supplemental if you need
it, are in the images directory.
>So are you saying that Linux is not concerned with a particular boot
>sector like DOS? Just basically wherever you put it?
That's not really what he means at all. Since you've got a safe clean hard
disk just try selecting the workstation install and let the system do as
much for you as possible. This puts you in the place of having something to
toy with rather than just readings a bunch of man pages.
>them. Michael's suggestion to look in Index.000 was a dead end because
>that file on my CD is empty.
Try index.html
>This is another slightly confusing point. You say it is Red Hat 5.2
>and KDE desktop. What is KDE Desktop. Does this replace the one from
>Red Hat? Or does Red Hat not have one?
It is RedHat 5.2. RedHat decided not to include KDE in their distribution
because of some potential licensing issues. (Many of the KDE functions are
based on a library which has a different copyright provision than the GPL,
and that sort of got in the way. I believe that's been resolved now.) The
various window managers, desktops, my setup is better than your setup
arguments and such are all just as applicable for Linux as they are for
dos/windows. KDE happens to be a very popular (and pretty good) system
that's a little hard to get working if you don't know what you're doing.
The Mandrake distribution is RedHat with KDE already configured and set up.
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Michael R. Batchelor
Industrial Informatics & Instrumentation, Inc.
