Re: RH6.1 install blues

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 10:05 PM 12/6/99 -0600, Bob Hartung wrote:
>Okay, I don't get it.  RH is worth mucho dinero.  RH 6.1 is
>released with a broken installer.   So I download the new
>boot image boot-RHEA-1999_044.img from the errata at
>redhat.com and make the diskette image with dd etc.  I boot
>with this diskette and choose KDE workstation to keep it
>simple.  
>  What do I get?  Gnome of course.  The kde files seem to be
>loaded but the old "usekde" file is not found. 
>  Does anyone have any insight?  Right now my office is
>giggling uncontrollably.  Linux is now confirmed as
>difficult if not impossible to install by those I work with.
>[I have installed 5.2 & 6.0 on numerous machines without
>this kind of problems].

I don't know about a broken installer, I ordered the $30 version from RH
and installed it on two machines without a hitch.  I always install Gnome
and KDE; that seems simple to me.

On the other hand, I've sunk all day trying to get NT and then Win95 to
install a stable OS on a single machine.  How I'd love to just do Linux....

-Alan
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