Re[2]: Linux difficult for newbies?

["Alex" <alex campbell erols com>]

Amen on the too much information.  For all RedHat has to say about making the
installation of Linux easier, they still end up saying you need more
documentation, but they don't tell you the next step.

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Subject: Re: Linux difficult for newbies?
Author: Frank Wilcox
Date:  10/14/98 4:36 AM

> > Well said, SJ!  Newbies (such as myself) need a lot more info
> > before starting installation.
> 
> There is a ton of detailed, technical docs with Linux, the FAQ, howtos,
> mini-howtos, all in html.  For more detail info goto the man pages.   You can
> even find most of these files on the net.  If you bought RedHat you got all
that
> on cd plus the RHmanual.html , portions of RedHat Unleashed, Unix in 24 Hours,
> Apache Admin, all in the pdf file format. And yes the is a copy of Acroread
for X
> and Win32 on the cd as well.

that's my point.  There's TOO MUCH info.  I'm not going to be using 
any kind of server, so i don't need all the stuff that goes along with it.
The main i thing i need to know right now is: How do i come up with 
modelines for XF86Config?  I tried reading the docs, but couldn't 
make heads-or-tails of it.

> > I'm having no end of trouble getting X installed.  I think the prob. is that
my
> > card's too new (most people have never heard of it).
> 
> Linux supports AGP boards.  You must have a card that is not main stream. 
With a
> free OS you can afford to get the AWE64 and that 3DFX APG video card and the
USR
> ISDN modem.

I wish i had AGP.  I have an S3 Trio Virge DX.  I'm currently 
running RH 4.2.  I've been trying to do an ftp upgrade to 5.1, but to 
no avail.  I went to RH's ftp site, and got 'root.img', and 'supp.img' 
and made new disks.  It starts downloading files, but "hangs" after 
about 3 minutes.  I wait about 10 minutes to see if maybe it's just 
processing something, but nothing ever happens.  I can't even
^-alt^del, i have to push reboot.  Any ideas?

> > That brings up the hardware compatibility issue.  My next computer
> > will be "Made for Linux" rather than "Made for Windoze95".
> 
> There is no hardware compatibility issue that you are refering to.  This is
what
> Microsoft wants you to belive.  Rather its a lack of a driver.  It's not the
> hardware that is unstable it's the OS.

Same thing.  If there's no driver, then it's not usable by the OS.

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Frank Wilcox, Jr (fewilcox email com)
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