Pollywog wrote: > Several people have told me that as newbies (first time install) they got > RedHat up and on the net in 15 minutes, but I don't believe any of them. > > -- > Andrew
I recently installed RH just to see what the big deal was about. I was totally offended by the hands-off install. The hardware detection was kool, but I know my hardware anyway. When the install was complete x started right up. No problem so far other than the fact that it installed the whole thing on one big 3.1gig partition and totally ignoring /dev/hdb. Then I tried to set up ppp. Looked easy. I followed the menus, typed here, clicked there and so on and so forth. But it wouldn't dial. So I thought I would take a look at the scripts to see what might be wrong. One look at the scripts and I knew that this system was designed to be opperated from a gui front-end only. I browsed around all the regular system files and everything was unfamiliar. Nothing seemed to be where it should have been, and what I could find I could not understand. My previous experience has been with Debian, SuSE, and Slack. With those you can "check under the hood" and know what you are looking at. I was totaly put off by RH. I took it off my box and put Debian back on within an hour. And by the way, I had ppp working within a few minutes after the install was complete. Maybe a newbie could have gotten ppp working for me under RH, but I think anyone with Linux experience would have had a hard time. <g> Is RH the Anti-Unix Linux? -- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are no accidents, only plans other people make and don't tell you about.