From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 18 21:59:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E093214EAC for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:59:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA09877; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:29:19 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA68937; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:29:16 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:29:16 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: John Birrell Cc: Gianmarco Giovannelli , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Linux (was: Sanity regained -- back with the best) Message-ID: <19990719142916.P65436@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990719134536.K65436@freebie.lemis.com> <199907190434.OAA22682@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199907190434.OAA22682@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 02:34:08PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 19 July 1999 at 14:34:08 +1000, John Birrell wrote: > 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-) Shhh, I was waiting for somebody to ask some questions. And then I was going to mention Darwin :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message