On 8 Jan 2002 at 7:51, Steven C. Darnold wrote:
>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.
Interesting - I just checked my installations of RedHat (5.1, 6.2) and
both of them had the "ldd" man page installed.
One thing I have found, occasionally, is a need to check the man page
search path, to determine where your system is actually looking for man
pages. c.f. "manpath".
>> 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.
Last time I installed RH 6.2, I had a terrible time getting it
installed _without_ any of the GUI components. I was intending to use
that box as a server, and didn't need any of the GUI components at all.
I still think that I wasn't able to get all of them removed, but I gave
up after a while. No offense intended, but a GUI isn't always
necessary or desired. "The right tool for the right task" should be
every engineer's motto.
>> 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
Well... I can think of worse. Alone with a punched-card reader. :-)
Anthony J. Albert
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