Ok, y'all - no flames, no laughs, no jests. The day before yesterday I hosed my PRIMARY linux box - running RH 7.3+. Because the partition table was mucked up beyond recognition, I lost my email, bookmarks, contacts, yadda yadda yadda...you name it, I lost it. Mind included.
Resolution to the issue was at first trying to get RH 8.0 on NICELY - didn't work. Actually, the performance was so lousy, and setting up a SIMPLE BLOODY HCF MODEM was so complex, I gave up. It was sickening. Hours gone for nothing. Ok - so now I've installed MDK 9.1rc2 - installation of EVERYTHING (and some) was less than an hour. Even setup my / and other FS's as ReiserFS without a hitch. Changed to the NVidia driver (via source compilation) in no time at all. Had to dig for KPPP, though - cuz it wasn't installed by default and the MCC still don't play nicely for doing simple setups - but that's another story...even got my IP masquerading done rather quickly - few minutes - nice. I have to say that KDE 3.1 is a beaut. MDK 9.1 has quite a bit of polish, quite a bit of performance - quite a lot of getting used to because, remember, I was enslaved to the RH world - but no mo. Nada. Done. Finito. The only issues I have now are that I have to get Postfix (yech) working nicely as it ain't playing nicely - and I'm far from being a Postfix freak - so I'm wondering about blowing Postfix and putting Sendmail on... SO, if y'all got something to tell me - some bits of wisdom or advice, please PLEASE tell me - cuz I've already lost three days of productivity with this and well, I'm really tired now...(grin) BUT, I'm happy it's working like a champ (performance is still mind boggling for me...really - not a joke) -- Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kuhn Media Australia
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