Re: A quick review. Re: Red Hat 7.2 Gotchas

2001-11-24 Thread Keith Morse
A stunning f'ing piece of work, Mike. Most excellent. A collective thanks for all the "gurus" for taking the time to produce such prose and share it with the masses. A note on the minimalist approach I've seen is "clarkconnect". I believe this is a stripped down RedHat release, massaged into a

Why I use gentoo - was A quick review. Re: Red Hat 7.2 Gotchas

2001-11-23 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 07:09:35 -0500 "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collins Richey wrote: > > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:26:27 +1130 Mike Andrew > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > My biggest problem with LFS is that they resolutely stick to the > > maxim: linux i

Re: A quick review. Re: Red Hat 7.2 Gotchas

2001-11-22 Thread Myles Green
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:54:10 +1130 Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 19:51, Myles Green wrote: > > I'm not having the kdesud problem here, for whatever reason. I just ran > > xcdroast as root and setup my 'mere-mortal' user as a user of xcdroast > > and I've burned *man

Re: A quick review. Re: Red Hat 7.2 Gotchas

2001-11-21 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:26:27 +1130 Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 23:44, David A. Bandel wrote: > > Oh my. Linux From Scratch, while good, is not for most. I would > hardly > > recommend this to anyone unless they have a _very_ good > understanding > > how things w

Re: A quick review. Re: Red Hat 7.2 Gotchas

2001-11-21 Thread Iraj Medifar
Hi Myles: Would you post the specs of the modem you have on your Sony Vaio, please? Thanks. IM On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 00:21, Myles Green wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:29:44 +1130 > Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:18, Michael Scottaline wrote: > > > > > I

Re: A quick review. Re: Red Hat 7.2 Gotchas

2001-11-21 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 19:51, Myles Green wrote: > I'm not having the kdesud problem here, for whatever reason. I just ran > xcdroast as root and setup my 'mere-mortal' user as a user of xcdroast > and I've burned *many* copies of RH7.2 to pass out at the college - as > 'me' not 'root' - since then.

Re: A quick review. Re: Red Hat 7.2 Gotchas

2001-11-21 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 23:44, David A. Bandel wrote: > Oh my. Linux From Scratch, while good, is not for most. I would hardly > recommend this to anyone unless they have a _very_ good understanding > how things work. My boo boo, scratch that comment, I was over-emphasising the need for a minimal

Re: A quick review. Re: Red Hat 7.2 Gotchas

2001-11-21 Thread David A. Bandel
Mike Andrew wrote: [snip] > I did a custom install on an old ext2 partition reformatted to ext3 (by the > installer). I strongly suspect that for the first time ever, if I had chosen > 'workstation' I _probably_ would have got exactly what i wanted and saved > myself a lot of finger picking. R

Re: A quick review. Re: Red Hat 7.2 Gotchas

2001-11-21 Thread Collins Richey
[ snips ] On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:29:44 +1130 Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you do nothing else, after installing, run the sysV init editor.Your jaw > might drop how many processes have started that you don't want, (and > each one slugs your cpu). That's always been my chief grip

Re: A quick review. Re: Red Hat 7.2 Gotchas

2001-11-21 Thread Myles Green
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:29:44 +1130 Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:18, Michael Scottaline wrote: > > > I recently installed RH 7.2 on a sony Vaio laptop (FX340). I'm afraid I > > had no problems, thus none to share. Absolutely everything worked right > > out

A quick review. Re: Red Hat 7.2 Gotchas

2001-11-20 Thread Mike Andrew
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:18, Michael Scottaline wrote: > I recently installed RH 7.2 on a sony Vaio laptop (FX340). I'm afraid I > had no problems, thus none to share. Absolutely everything worked right > out of the box, NIC, video, audio, CD (burner and DVD, though I haven't > tried in tha