Re: [aclug-L] Flame bait... (distribution question)

[jeffrey.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I'm trying to remember the last snafu.  It was originally trying to figure
out what they meant with their prompts.  It asked for the name of the
"block device" and I no reference to use for answering that.  I since found
out the terminology involved so that's not an issue anymore.  I think the
last time it was simply that it wanted to load packages and asked for their
locations.  I gave it the default choices and it still couldn't find most
of them.  I explicitly sent it to the locations and still no luck.  It's
the "official 2.0" release so I figured it was complete.  It has the neat
option of getting the packages from a web site but since the system isn't
installed and configured the modem isn't working either.  Like I said
before, I really wanted to see it done once and have that in the mental
database for a solo attempt.  The one I got going at home isn't cooperating
either.  It's RH 5.1 but I can't get the Video Servers working for anything
above VGA.  My monitor is 43 Hz Interlaced, but that setting won't work for
some reason.  This whole experience is exceedingly frustrating.  I'm
desparately waiting for the new kernel to hopefully benefit from improved
installation/configuration utilities.  Time will tell.






cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxx on 03/10/99 02:12:33 PM

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Subject:  Re: [aclug-L] Flame bait... (distribution question)




What have been your problems?


On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 jeffrey.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
> The problem I have with Debian is that in three tries I have yet to have
a > successful experience.  It was my preference because the school is
using > it, but I must require more active brain cells than the 60's left
me with. > Unfortunately, I missed the install party.  I was really hoping
the see it
> done by the experts (presumably enabling me to mimic the success), but,
> alas, it wasn't meant to be.  Other than that, I'm on their side if not
> simply because of their "totally free" approach, then because of the
> support.
>
>
>
>
>
> cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxx on 03/10/99 10:44:13 AM
>
> Please respond to aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> To:   aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> cc:    (bcc: Jeffrey Hansen/BFTC/Bombardier)
> Subject:  Re: [aclug-L] Flame bait... (distribution question)
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Greg House wrote:
>
> > Perhaps I'm opening up a can of worms here, but I'm wondering what
other
> > people's thoughts on this are.  And how others are handling it.
> >
> > I know a lot of you are running Debian, some are running RedHat, and
> there's > a couple with other distributions.
> >
> > I tried several of them when I was first getting started and the one
that > > ended up staying on my machine was Slackware.  It seemed fairly
intuitive > > for me, so I kept it.  Since then I've set up a couple of
RedHat systems, > > and now I'm working on a Debian system.  What I'm
finding is that almost > > everything in terms of really current stuff only
comes in tarballs and > rpms. > For example, I wanted the lasted version of
XFree86, no deb files
> available > for it (except some experimental builds a Debian developer
> made, which took
> > awhile to locate).  I wanted the new Gnome 1.0...rpms...no debs.
> > Enlightenment?  NO debs (well, actually debian.org had them in the
slink
> > directories, but they weren't on enlightenment.org)
> >
> > Are all you Debian users 6 months behind on stuff (the last frozen
> release)? > Are you getting source for these things and compiling them
> yourself?  Are > you running development versions of Debian (slink (until
> today), potato)? > It just seems like when there's a package manager that
> you'll eventually end > up shooting yourself in the foot if you have to
> subvert it by installing the > stuff that's not packaged in your package
> system of choice.  It also appears > that the only packages people are
> doing of really up to the minute stuff are
> > rpm packages. I like the concept of Debian.org (totally free), but I'm
> > seriously thinking about going back to RedHat because of the
availability
> of > current packages.  Slackware'll keep track of the tarball
> installations for > you, so that might be an option too.
> >
>
> I tried redhat 4.2, and 5.0, and after getting sick of things not working
> ,and since i could get "support" for debian I installed debian.
>
> Yes I do wait 6 months for the newest debs, and that does kinda of annoy
> me, but the reason it takes so long is that want to get as mnay bugs out
> as possible, and I admit it works. It is very stable.
>
>
>
>
>
> > Greg
> >
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