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Re: Red Hat SCAM?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Fall)
Thu Nov 5 23:36:45 1998
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 00:30:49 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
From: Greg Fall <gmf@dweezil.dyn.ml.org>
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On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, TripKill wrote:
> After having serious trouble installing Red Hat 5.2 after downloading it,
> I started to think that maybe there is a reason behind having to go through
> all of this trouble. Most everyone I talk to say it is very hard to
> install Red Hat from the hard-drive and just easier to buy the cd......see
> what I'm getting at yet? I never had problems with Slackware. Well, I
> might as well just come out and say it...You suppose that Red Hat does that
> for a reason...I mean, the reason that I can't install Red Hat from the
> hard-drive (according to many ppl in #LINUX) is that windows makes rpms
> instead or RPMS and there is no way around it. So that means, I'll have to
> break-down and buy the cd. I'm sure that Red Hat is aware of this
> problem.......
I don't know if an HD install is a typical way of installing Red Hat, but
it will help you probably to know that if you sit tight for a few days
CheapBytes (http://www.cheapbytes.com) ships single Red Hat CDs for like
$2. They also have a cool errata subscription ($12 for U.S. and Canadian
customers). Getting Red Hat this way doesn't do much for the company, but
it's likely you'll get all sorts of warm feelings and maybe even pay full
price some day just out of goodwill.
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