Thanks to everyone who replied and for all the great advice. I decided
to go
with the rpm install and am glad of it. ...No pain, no strain. I am
typing this message from
communicator so needless to say it worked w/o a hitch; even have it set
up
to bypass the m$ proxy server so it will now hit the
> "sw" == Sean Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
sw> I bought the RH Linux Installation Guide, and was loaned another
sw> newbie book, and have searched the man pages trying to figure
sw> out how to install programs. I downloaded Netscape from the net,
sw> but have yet to figure out
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 10:00:54AM -0500, Sean Winters wrote:
> First of all, let me say that even though I come from the NT world, I
> was able to install RH 5.0 and get it going on the network with minimum
> fuss. (A testament to the ease of installation, not my technical
> prowess.)
>
> I boug
Sean Winters wrote:
> First of all, let me say that even though I come from the NT world, I
> was able to install RH 5.0 and get it going on the network with minimum
> fuss. (A testament to the ease of installation, not my technical
> prowess.)
>
> I bought the RH Linux Installation Guide, and wa
Avoid tarballs whenever possible, and use RPM if you want to just use
software without having to wade through the source code. Read the section
on RPM in your Red Hat User's Guide, which an online version is available
at
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/RHL-5.0-Installation-Guide-HTML/manu
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Sean Winters wrote:
> First of all, let me say that even though I come from the NT world, I
> was able to install RH 5.0 and get it going on the network with minimum
> fuss. (A testament to the ease of installation, not my technical
> prowess.)
>
> I bought the RH Linux Inst
According to Sean Winters:
>
> Is there any resource I can hit to get information on how to accomplish
> program compiles and installation???
>
There's no single resource, other than mailing lists, and you don't want
to be hitting that :-)
If you truly want to compile and install (most people
On 23 Apr, Sean Winters wrote:
> First of all, let me say that even though I come from the NT world, I
> was able to install RH 5.0 and get it going on the network with minimum
> fuss. (A testament to the ease of installation, not my technical
> prowess.)
>
> I bought the RH Linux Installation Gu
First of all, let me say that even though I come from the NT world, I
was able to install RH 5.0 and get it going on the network with minimum
fuss. (A testament to the ease of installation, not my technical
prowess.)
I bought the RH Linux Installation Guide, and was loaned another newbie
book, an
