From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 18 21:31:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C23FA14E05 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:31:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA22682; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:34:08 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199907190434.OAA22682@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Installing Linux (was: Sanity regained -- back with the best) In-Reply-To: <19990719134536.K65436@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jul 19, 1999 01:45:37 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:34:08 +1000 (EST) Cc: gmarco@scotty.masternet.it (Gianmarco Giovannelli), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > I installed Debian from the CDs distributed at USENIX. It was a > *whole* lot better than UnixWare, but so far everything has been. > Debian upset me by not being able to install X (not even manually). I > had to go through quite some pain to get it running. Also, it only > installed a subset of the man pages, though I asked for everything. > > I've just completed a backup of the Debian partition, and I'll try > RedHat 5.2 next (5.2 because that's what I got given at the NT UNIX > Conference last week). I take it that you are referring to "Northern Territory" as NT rather than (Windows) "No Thanks"? 8-) -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message