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My First time Linux Experience.
Oddzball:
I just want to be able to install the other software packages? Any idea why it doesnt recognize my Linux install cd #2 as being the linux install cd #2?
Stryker:
quote:Originally posted by Agent Jimmy James Smith:
remember, the "brands" of Linux aren't really different "kinds". It's just what company packages it. Linux is just the kernel, and everything else is "GNU Utilities" and stuff made for that distro.
and what the fuck is my point? I'M AN ASSHOLE!! I don't need one. I'm sick of hearing people bitch about my platform, so I'm gonna bitch about everything else by blowing shit outta my ass.
OS X > Linux distros
CthulOS will soon = OS X
CthulOS > Linux distros
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oh wow, thanks for clearing that up for me...
does this mean that you no longer support your my-video-card-doesnt-work-perfectly-right-away-so-linux-sucks theory?
no oddzball, i dont. did you use that disk to install mandrake? I'm not too familiar with mandrake, not sure what process it uses to identify the disk.
JesusRocks:
Jimmy James, is it your goal to come into every linux discussion and screw with it.
Should I start posting in the Apple Section?
I dont post in there because my latest apple experience was with OS 7.
emh:
quote:Originally posted by Oddzball:
I just want to be able to install the other software packages? Any idea why it doesnt recognize my Linux install cd #2 as being the linux install cd #2?
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Do you have more than one CD-ROM drive? If so, try the other one.
Aside from that, I'm really not sure. You're describing problems I've never had.
quote:
It will be a challenge everytime you use it.
I don't think that even Torvalds knows how to use it 100% painlessly
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I can assure you that this is not true.
BouncingAyatollah:
On older Celery 400Mhz machines, ATI Rage video cards, everything-on-board Gateway PCs I found small quirks with both Mandrake and Suse installs. I would say try Redhat 9.0 or if you just want to have a look try Knoppix (it runs straight from CD with about 2Gb of apps to play with).
I've used RedHat9 on both a modernish Duron/Athlon machine and an old grunter of a P233 mostly fine (see later). However there *was* a problem with the 2.4.20 linux kernel and *some* Athlon/XPs (especially XPs - including mine) which seeing as it was the "current" kernel affected Redhat9, Madrake 9.?, Knoppix 3.2 and so on, maybe this is your problem?
I'd say get and try Knoppix 3.3 (newer kernel) and if that works this may be the answer. Until the Athlon XP problem was fixed Redhat9 had freezing on boot, and some executables on Gentoo just crashed. Since Gentoo has been updated to a newer kernel it is fine. As for internal modems, "Winmodems" are not usually linux-friendly, graphics cards - sorry don't know much about the specifics here.
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