On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Clive Crous wrote about, Kernel Panic After Clean Installation
( RH6.0 ) - Diff. Distribution ?:
> re my earlier mail,
>
> It was recommended to me by a friend that I perhaps opt for a different
> distribution.
>
> What I want
> fast,functional,no GUI,compact
Slackware, you can choose what you want, its the smallest beacuse its all
one one cd and you can install the base system + networking, thats around
40 megs. You can then pick and choose what else you need after booting the
system.
Slackware has a program called pkgtool to install programs, but considering
all slackware's disk sets are in tgz form you can simply use tar to place
them on your system.
> I want - in this process of setting up a server - to learn the way it's done
> properly, I dont want to have to go through layers of apps etc, I want to do
> it at it's most basic level. I want to wade through howto's and sit hours &
> hours figuring it all out. I don't want it all done for me. But most
> important, is I want it too be stable, once set up ( _If_ I do it correctly
> ;-) ).
> If I crash my machine while trying, so what.
I doubt you will be able to crash the system, you might have more success
in mucking up but really crashing a linux system is not really so easy as
doing the same in Windows.
>
> I'm fairly confident that I know DOS backwards due to this manner of
> teaching myself, and I was one of the only people I knew who still used DOS
> at home even after the release of win98.
Thats the way to go.
>
> *ehe*
> I know there's another thread atm along these lines, but I've given ( I
> think) more specific info as to what I'm looking for :
> with that info, can someone recommend a distribution :)
Slackware.
>
> He recommended as a fast/small distro I try Stampede linux ( am I the only
> one who's never heard of this one ? )
Keep away from those so called little distro's they are designed for the
not so linux orientated people.
>
> <OT start>
> --PART 2-- (the saga continues) ---
>
> A friend of mine was given an old a 486 server box, and is also trying to
> set up something similar to mine but cannot get the machine working. It has
> on it an LCD display of error codes, as opposed to the crypting beeps ;) -->
> Does anyone know where He can get hold of the 486 error codes ?
I know not where you can find this but have you tryed xfree86.org
The saying goes,
If you want to learn Linux install SLACKWARE.
If you just want to use Linux install what a distro installs for you.
>
> </OT end>
>
> TIA (again)
> Clive
>
>
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Regards Richard
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