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Re: KDE/new Redhat install (was Re: Has anyone ever been)
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:54:04 GMT
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On Sun, 19 Dec 1999 19:05:29 GMT, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley)
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> Bought a new 40 gig drive for my Linux box. Couldn't make it be
*drool*
> (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.
And again...
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> 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.
I've heard about that. I haven't heard of anyone who actually liked
it.
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> 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.
I suppose that says something about IDE, large drives, and servers.
> 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
Probably not.
> Ramble, ramble.... TCP/IP test tomorrow. 2 tests this week and I'm
> MCSE. Then I start CNE.
Stop it, you're making me jealous..
Jasper
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