[102189] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RH 5.2 - Variety Pack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Tue Dec 1 20:02:42 1998
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 19:43:07 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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David Viray wrote:
> I am a newbie to Linux, but with a little UNIX experience and I have to
> agree with Lloyd. I was suprised that the book covers so much basic
> installation topics, but then leaves you hanging, and also have yet to hear
> back from Redhat's email support.
It's a very good manual for installing RedHat - as its title says.
That's what you need first. If it were to answer all your questions for a
year,
it would have to huge, and it would have to duplicate the effort of
good books such as O'Reilly's "Running Linux" and others.
>
>
> It is nice to have the CD for installation, so if you can get the disk/s
> from somewhere cheaply, don't waste your time with the "Official" redhat
> distribution unless they decide to start providing the support that they
> claim to have.
They did provide me support. I registered. I emailed questions. They
emailed answers. For $49, I think I got reasonable support, but remember
they only promise installation support - nothing more for that price.
In my mind, they kept their promise. It's the best support I ever
got for such a price. I got better support from Sybase, but that
cost about 200 times more money - and it was not 200 times better!
>
>
> Common sense and some initial advice about partition sizes, and needed
> packages are all a newbie needs to get started. The only thing I looked up
> in the manual were suggested partition sizes (and used those as minimums).
If you scan thru the book you will learn some other things that would have
made installation and setup more fun.
I've been working with Linux the last 4 years and with Unix 12 years before
that.
Even so, I can honestly say the RH install book was worthwhile reading.
I gained a better understanding of rpm, and RedHat installation options
than I could have gotten by trial and error. The key point is:
read the book and installation is more fun. Do without, and it's more
difficult.
>
>
> I am still in the process of getting things set up, and it requires a lot of
> time, but once I get over the learning curve (an aggravating process), I
> should be working away, and enjoying Linux.
>
> David Viray | The path of OS righteousness
> FOE Engineer | is down the Linux path
> Motorola ICSD | (or so I'm told)
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Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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