Ben A L Jemmett wrote: > > Oh dear God, not Slackware. Day, trust me on this: you > won't get along with it. It doesn't give you any help > at all.
Slackware, at least, gives you good man pages. According to Day, RedHat doesn't even have a man page for ldd. > You boot the install disk and it gets you to log in, then > gives you a shell prompt. What!!! No GUI??? Dire straits, indeed. I want my... I want my... I want my point and click. > You have to create your partitions yourself, then launch > the installer. The advantage of the manual approach is that you can tune the installation to match your situation. This is particularly important for a survPC, where resources are limited. The fancy, all-singing, all-dancing distributions expect a Pentium with lots of RAM and multi-gigabytes of HD space. Even, if they work on a low-end 486 (which is unlikely), they probably won't allocate the resources efficiently. > Then you get to reboot, and it sticks you at a console login > prompt. From there you're on your own. Wow, that's almost as bad as the C:\> prompt. Alone with a blinking cursor. It's enough to scare you off computers altogether. Cheers, Steven To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
