On Thursday 11 Nov 2004 12:12, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
*** Reply to message from peter Nikolic <p.nikolic1@btinternet.com> on Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:14:52 +0000 One more candle and a trip around the Sun***
Wonder just what's going on it flies on my Athlon 2700+ with 512Mb ram it's just a pity the install was so PRE ALPHA it took a few days to get it all installed and cooking.
um, could you be more specific? Are you saying that you had an curses install , rather than a graphical one? Or was something else going on? Usually Ncurses happens when the box is really old i.e. my old cellery, and one other person who has an old "Quote"
understand that better on my old P-II/350 box. "en quote"
But all the others I have had use a graphical install and that is pretty quick. I am told the Ncurses install is a really hands on tweakers delight. Tho I can't say I enjoy it much. Especially as my mouse isn't recognized at all and everything is tab key .. bah! Looking at your hardware I don't see anything that jumps off the page. But, if you are saying the graphical install is pre-alpha, I will just have to disagree. Especially if you come from a Red Hat environment. Because in that case you aren't going to be nervous or frightened by all the choices you have. <G>
That seems to be the single most frightening thing for complete newbies. They have to answer questions and make decisions about how they want the thing setup.
oh well back to the backups... this box has been whining that all the others have 9.2 and it doesn't <G>
-- j
nemo me impune lacessit No it was the graphical install it kept failing with errors unpacking files all over the place i started to make a list of the fails at one stage but it was every other file then it would freeze so restart and it would be another set of files and so on it is not the CD/DVD drive as i installed a brand new one to check still the same it is not memory tested that out all ok .
I run a clocked processor so i reset all that to factory settings still the same . in the long run i found the dodge was to start an windBloZe xp install crash it out then 9.2 installed sweet as anything , So to make sure i deleted the partitions on the NEW HD and tried again same old game with fails all over the place start and crash an XP install then 9.2 flies on now if any one can explain that one to me i am all ears BTW i have been running Linux since kernels way back in the early 0.9x.XX series before there was any X or kde or gnome when you needed separate boot partitions and it came on a mountain of floppy's big enough to cause a road block. Oh the mouse detection is totally wrong as well YMMV Pete. -- Linux user No: 256242 Machine No: 139931 G6NJR Pete also MSA registered "Quinton 11" A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world has NO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp , Play time is over folks time for action approaches at an alarming pace the death knell for M$ Copr has been sounded . Termination time is around the corner ..