> > > A goal of linux should be to make the install as easy, fast, and > painless as absolutely possible. If you want to get into the gears > and wheels of installing and setting things up, either do so after > the initial install OR choose to do it that way in the first place, > just don't expect that the hard way should be the only (or even the > main) way. > > patrick > > patrick > > I agree. I just bought and installed 5.1 about 3 weeks ago and I'm still working on getting it like I want it. Of course I come from Microso$t OS's and know very little about unix. I had a $1.99 copy of RH 4.2 and never could get X to work right. I tried an upgrade install to 5.1 and RPM's started to fail to install about 3/4's of the way through. I guess that I ran out of disk space. I did a reinstall from scratch and that worked fine. However as a user who just went out and bought this I would expect the install program to tell me if I don't have enough disk space to upgrade ahead of time. Evidently it needs a lot of free space to upgrade. I knew what to expect from the 4.2 install so it wasn't much of a problem for me. So far I must say that I am very pleased with Linux and I only use Windoze when I have to. BTW. Win 95 runs in a different position on the same hard disk. and I don't have problems with either Linux or Win 95. My windows 95 crashes about once a month and Linux has not crashed yet. Mike Gahagan -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
