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KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been)
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Sun, 19 Dec 1999 19:05:29 GMT
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Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote:
> > I suggest KDE because of the single-click-operation paradigm -- seems like
> > that'd solve most of the problem.
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> Ah, is that it.. I must admit I've never delved very deeply into KDE.
Hey, this reminded me of something I did last week. Short
background:
Bought a new 40 gig drive for my Linux box. Couldn't make it be
seen properly even after a BIOS update and even after numerous other
things (edited lilo.conf with the CHS info, etc, etc). So I pulled
a typical Windows-brainwashed-user thing and figured I'd just wipe
and reinstall, hoping disk druid would figure it out for me. In
retrospect I'm glad I did this anyway because I had partitioned the
original 10g drive a little oddly and would have a chance to do it
the "right" way now.
So I did. After I copied my Redhat 6.1 CD I had made from RW to CDR
(old 8x drive in the Linux box, no likely the RW even though
everything else in it is fairly new (Abit BX6-2, 128mb, Celeron
300a-450)) - although it wouldn't boot off it, had to find a 98
startup disk in a drawer.
Anyway, I'd never installed RH 6.1 and man, do I HATE that
installer. Obviously a poor attempt to look like Caldera's
idiot-proof installer, imo. Selecting individual packages was such
a major pain in the a, err, buttocks.
But everything ended well. It saw my 39gig drive just fine and even
though it took 4 hours and 5 minutes to format (checking for bad
blocks after all the screwing I had done with the drive on the
earlier install) it worked just fine. Recognized the 3c905b-tx I
put in their to replace the crappy SMC (2104) 10mb card I was using
too.
I don't know, maybe if I had been installing RH to use on a
workstation I would have appreciated the new installer, but this box
is purely a ssh/ftp/http/quakeX server for me, so the feel-good
graphical crap just got in the way. Even the account admin thing
was a pain - I used it but I could have made the accounts 10x faster
later using adduser.
Ramble, ramble.... TCP/IP test tomorrow. 2 tests this week and I'm
MCSE. Then I start CNE.
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| (...) Heh. Where am I gonna get 72-pin FPRAM modules these days? I mean, okay, I have 32M lying around, but that's gonna have to go into the P166 I also have lying around. (...) Ah, is that it.. I must admit I've never delved very deeply into KDE. (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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