I've had no problems with my RH7.2 install since I replaced the faulty cd drive. Only problem left is it will not mount the CD drive. It says the etc/fstab file does not exist when it is there with global rights.
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From: Jeff [
mailto:jeff@stickboyproductions.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 8:16 AM
To:
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Subject: Re: newbies linux adventure
Go with Slackware! :) I've had nothing but great luck with it. but you gotta work....
At 05:25 PM 11/6/2001, you wrote:
>Curtis Zinzilieta wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, John (EBo) David wrote:
>>
>> > Nancy Sollars wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Red 7x installers fail often
>> >
>> > and they want us to buy the thing? hmmm I hope someone from RH is paying
>> > attention...
>> >
>> > EBo --
>>
>> Yup. I've been busy and am just catching up on all my not-on-fire email
>> and noticed this.
>>
>> So, I'll try to answer questions or get problems escalated up the chain to
>> those who can help. What brought this comment about? I've personally
>> installed Red Hat on literally dozens of different types of systems
>> without problems. Can someone (Alan? Nancy?) give me some specifics?
>>
>> If this doesn't seem appropriate for the list, feel free to email me
>> privately.
>
>Hi Curtis,
>
>My motivation for responding thus was to see if any of the RH srew were
>still listening and to let them know there were complaints...
>Personally I have been using SuSE for the past 2 to 3 years. I am
>seriously considering switching as I have not been enamered with SuSE's
>support. The 4 distro's I am considering is slack, debian, RH, and
>Mandrake. and frankly I AM paying attention.
>
>Glad that you are onboard with the RH team, and thanks for following. up
>unfortunately I have since deleated the original messages and cannot
>reproduce the chain easily. The general gist IIRC is that one of the
>newbies was having serious trouble with his linux install and made some
>specific comments on what was breaking during the install. It is now
>suspected that he may have a bad sim, but that was the one case. The
>person who replied has had other experiences. My experience with RH
>(this being years past) was that old stable hardware installed just
>fine, newer stuff had problems and the bleading edge was like jugling a
>running chainsaw. But regardless, I would run any Linux over Windows 9
>days out of 10 (the exception being low level hardware control which DOS
>makes easy, but give RT-Linux a couple more years...)
>
> EBo --
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