Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 12:11:07 +0300 From: "Max Kool" <koolmax@hotmail.com> To: "Marty Poulin" <mpoulin@honk.org> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Dillema... Message-ID: <20000411025617.81746.qmail@hotmail.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000327132954.7295C-100000@spectre>
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Hello again all, Thanks for all your advice. I finally got the time to fool around with them operating systems. Some of you asked for a follow-up on this so here it is. After realizing I have no partitioning program, I downloaded Partition Magic 5 which took about 4 days (I don't have much time to spend on my computer and I'm only a 33K). I decided to just make one partition (1.2 GB) and install all of them one by one and keep the one I like most. I first installed RedHat 6.1, as I heard it had a user-friendly installer with no problems. It's not the installer I had trouble with. Firstly, it wouldn't multi-boot even though I told him to when I installed it. Or is there a key I should have pressed when it went "LILO boot..."? Anyway, I got over that and then spent an hour and a half trying to get GNOME to use 800x600x16bpp. I ran xconf a couple hundred times (well.. :-)) but it would either use the normal 640x480x8bpp or it just wouldn't start telling me that no video modes are usable. I said what the hell and next I tried FreeBSD. While I hear the installation should have been painless, I couldn't install it. Maybe because it's an older version (3.2, june '99), I dunno - what I had trouble with was Fdisk. I don't know what I did wrong. I marked my partition FreeBSD, all was ok, it said it didn't need a swap partition, I didn't give it one. And when I wanted to start the actual install, it told me that it needed several more partitions (guess I should have taken notes cause I can't remember what those were). So call me stupid, but I couldn't install FreeBSD. Ah well, I'll try again and eventually succeed. Guess it is user friendly but that depends on the user :-) Next up, Corel Linux Deluxe. Installation was child's play and I've only two problems with it: it didn't detect my soundcard and I couldn't dial into my ISP (I dunno how to disable 'logging on to network'). > 1. FreeBSD > The installation should be painless - make sure to check your hardware > against the hardware compatibility list, particularly if you have an > ethernet card. Which reminds me - there were 13 conflicting devices. I removed them all instead of the Sony CD-ROM as I had none of the others. Shouldn't I have? > 2. Red Hat Linux > 6.1 is a pretty good version to install - it has a "windows-like" gui > installer. Their disk partition utility was ok - it will be a big help if > you plan on multi-booting your system, It wasn't (see above). > but I still prefer the FreeBSD boot > manager over LILO. I agree, I didn't even get to install FreeBSD and it had already set up the multi- boot. > 3. Corel Open Linux > Yikes. <snip> In my opinion Corel is still Alpha-quality, but like I said > lots of people seem to like it. Hey you UNIX gurus don't need Corel Linux. It's for us newbies that can't get RedHat or FreeBSD to run :-) > If you're going to try it, watch out for the ATI Rage 3d > card problem. I have a Voodoo Banshee with 16MB and it worked with no fuss from the beggining in 1024x768x16bpp (which is more than I hoped, as I can't even get winblowz to use that resolution - can't adjust the refresh rate). Guess I was just lucky :-) Well, thanks again for your advice, guys. I'll keep you posted. Max To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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