RE: your mail
Hi Louis,
> I'm 42 years old, I've installed VMS, MVS/XA, AOS/VS, AT&T
> System V, MIIS,
> HP/UX, Solaris, Ultrix, OSF/1, Slackware, RedHat, Debian,
> FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
> I've used Debian since the 1.3 kernel. In the last 5 days
> I've installed
> Debian, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. As you know, each OS has its
> own "style" and
> it does take a little bit of effort to learn dselect, but you
> will find
> that it is one of the nicest methods of installation/upgrade you could
> hope to find. It's certainly nicer than AT&T System 5 and Ultrix; less
> tedious than VMS and MVS/XA; more powerful than Red Hat;
> friendlier than
> OpenBSD (drops you into disklabel right off the bat); etc.
Wow, you certainly have the experience to judge.
> >Forget Debian, there are other distributions to try.
> Try them all, but debian is a honey once you give it a
> chance. I used the
> debian web page for the step by step, and I had to try it 2-3
> times the first
> time (Boy did I screw up XFree86 the first time) but that was
> only a long
> afternoon.
I agree, as far as Linux is concerned I only have Redhat and Slackware
experience but there is so much in Debian that I'm really interested in
having one system up running it.
What I wanted to do was to install the 2.1 that I have on CD and then
upgrade to the frozen distribution over the network and I have not managed
to do that.. I've basically wasted about 12 hours trying. I was plagued with
problem after problem. The first time I could not get the network to work,
somehow it had set up IP Masq etc. It took me a very long time to work out
that it was IP Masq. that was blocking the network, I don't know why Debian
set up IP M, I must have answered wrongly to a question during the
installation. I had tried different PCMCIA cards, cables etc. before I found
out ;-(
Anyway, after rebuilding the kernel without IP M the network was working.
I'm actually trying to get the latest version of Debian on a notebook so
that I can get rid of Windows products, the only thing I still do with
Windows products is Office automation, my other Linux machine is a great
Network server which gives me absolutely no problems and only needs
rebooting when my ISP changes my IP address, in fact it should not need to
be rebooted but the network blocks when the IP address changes and as I'm
not usually at home when that happens someone just reboots it. (cable
modem - redhat 6.0)
Anyway, I think Debian is too attractive to give up now so I'll persevere,
so many people have spent so much valuable time getting it to be as good as
it is !! hopefully I won't waste another day.. But, it is Sunday, the sun is
shining, not much wind here in Belgium today comparing with yesterday so I'm
going to get on my motorbike and release some of my stress ;-))
Hope you guys have a great weekend as well,
Jerry
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