As Ben McKeegan said: > > On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Gilbert Ramirez Jr. wrote: > > > > I will unfortunately continue this thread with nothing but opinions. I > > think that any person wanting to run Unix on their own computer should be > > able to 1) download files, 2) uncompress and untar files, 3) type 'make > > config', and the least 4) make a boot floppy. They don't even have to > > understand LILO. > > > 1) and 2) are a big problem if like me you only set up the machines with > very small linux partitions. I've been setting up several student PCs here > with Debian for use just as X terminals, which only have small hard disks, > and still need DOS & windows.
True. Also, after I posted the above, I realized that #1 above may be *very* difficult, judging from the amount of troubles people have had with pppd and chat. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ben McKeegan --gilbert ______________________________________________________________________ Gilbert Ramirez Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Texas http://merece.uthscsa.edu/gram Health Science Center at San Antonio University Health System
