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lazygamer:
So I was installing XFS Redhat Linux, and I thought everything was gonna be fine. The first time, there was an unexplainable crash in the installer. That shook me up. But I went on, and saw the package selection screen. It was horrible! By default, Redhat had stuffed their distro full of shit that is redunant, useless, and I will never use! That's not even including the "default un-selected options" that were available. There was actually some good ones that I selected though. The problem is mainly that the tremendous quanity of stuff you had to sift through! Redhat should be given a good smack for making one of the most horrible package choosing experinces I've ever seen! Why not have a "dumbass home user n00b option"? After the whole ordeal was over(and even then, I had chosen a whole lot of stuff that I would probably never use, or was redundant, or I had no idea whether it's abscene would harm my system functionality) everything would of been ok.

Then shit hits the fan. The XFS disk installs, now let's put in the Redhat Disk. Huh? This is not the right disk? Try it again and the same message appears. Nooooooo, all my package selection time lost, all my burn time lost. It was no good, I rebooted in sadness and am now off to bed, to cure my tiredness and sadness. Sleep is a drug, and it is the perfect solution for sadness. Take 10hrs and see me in the morning.

What went wrong? Is there much chance of a corrupt .iso? Is it the fault of the CD burning process? I did do alot of multi-tasking and system usage while I was burning the disks, is that a no-no? I get this feeling it is... but im not sure. Problem is, when stuff like this happens, I get a hopeless paranoia feeling. I feel like the disks are fine, and they will do the exact same thing over again when re-burnt "properly". And then when the .isos are downloaded again from another source, one of them will be corrupt again(if corrupt downloads are the issue). If not that, then I feel that XFS/Redhat installer simply won't like my system and refuse to install even after all I've been through.

Then the package selection angers me. Im so upset with it that I'll just say fuck it and go with their choices, even though a huge amount of space will be wasted with useless garbage.

Is Redhat(once installed) something to be scared of? The package selection has made me paranoid with what if's.

I mean god, Windows has hundreds of megs of wasted space from sloppy programing, and Redhat(I used to think of them as 1337hat or pimphat, well that package system fiasco has made them lose their cool alternate name for quite some time) has hundreds of megs of wasted space from sloppy package selections.

voidmain:
If you don't want to have to do a detailed install where you select individual packages then don't do it. But it's certainly not bad to do an "install everything" option so you can at least look through and play with those items that you think are "redundant, useless, and you will never use" (which they are not, and you surely will never use them if you don't install them or read about them).  

RedHat has "dumbed down" install options for people such as yourself, but for people like me I prefer the granularity of a custom install because I know exactly what I want and what I don't want.  Can't tell you about XFS as I have never used it, nor really have a need to. But for someone like you who is new to Linux you might want to stick to a predefined install method until you get more familiar with Linux.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/install-guide/s1-steps-type.html

[ September 17, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Master of Reality:
being pissed off because of too many choices is a good thing. I sifted through every time i installed then the last time i said fuck it and install all 3GB of extra software. I uninstalled a lot of it over time and now it is mostly what i want.

lazygamer:
Yah, well might as well do as Void main said. I got 8gigs of space for Linux. My question is, do I have corrupt burn sessions? Luckily I use CD-RW's for linux disks so I can erase them if I want to try a different distro. CD-RW's work perfectly fine for booting and installing off of if you use your rewriter drive to boot with. I've been able to install Mandrake and Libranet with no issues this way...

The reason why I used the XFS Redhat was because it's susposed to have a big performance increase due to the XFS.

So is Redhat similar to Linux for configuring, once it's installed?

Master of Reality:

quote:Originally posted by lazygamer:
So is Redhat similar to Linux for configuring, once it's installed?
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huh? is redhat similar to linux? Red Hat is Linux.

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