"Steven C. Darnold" wrote: > > > When I first got RH, it would not run the ppp driver. > > As much as I dislike RedHat, I would be very, very surprised > if it could not run the ppp driver. I think the sentence you > want is: > > -> When I first got RH, I was unable to run the ppp driver. No Steven. The CD ROM continually told me that the "RPM was corrupted" and then crashed, wiping out the whole install. The only way I could get RH 5.2 up and running at all was to get a boot floppy from a friend of a friend, (the second one RH sent me didnt work either) then select custom install, and keep eliminating the ones that would not work. Whoever coded the install script did not consider what would happen if an RPM would not read correctly. No error trapping at all, which I found appalling.
After some weeks of screwing around with RH 5.2 I ordered Mandrake 7, and was up and running in an hour or so. Both the CD and the Floppy drives run disks from mdk and everyone else with no problem. I should have been more clear; RH couldnt run the ppp driver cause it didnt _have_ a ppp driver. I was online with Nettamer, so I had access to USENET, and there I saw how many had succeeded with mandrake, as well as how many complaints there was with RH. All that was a few years ago, and recently I did get a copy of RH 7.2; very pleasantly surprised to see how much they had improved the install. However since it wouldnt run my tekram scsi card either, I ordered suse and slack to see if they would. The 395UW scsi card is a few years old and was cheap, so it aint a question of needing the latest distro, only the most complete one. we will see... I dont exactly run SURVPC, so much as the cheapest bleeding edge stuff I can find, which generally is a few years behind the curve. I find that price point to deliver the most performance/dollar. 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
