On Saturday 24 Apr 2004 11:40 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > 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)
9.1? Why? Postfix can be a problem in 9.2 because it installs a non-functional mailman. Solution is to configure mailman or just uninstall both and reinstall Postfix. I didn't have a problem with 9.1final though, although I might have just selected different install options. -- Richard Urwin
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