[97970] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Red Hat SCAM?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Rotenberg)
Thu Nov 5 23:47:33 1998
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 20:46:34 -0800
From: Josh Rotenberg <josh@parasite.com>
To: TripKill <tripkill@1starnet.com>, redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: josh@parasite.com
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981105221507.009da680@mail.1starnet.com>; from TripKill <tripkill@1starnet.com> on Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 10:23:42PM -0600
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
i think you need to chill. ive never done a hard-drive install, but ive done a
bunch of ftp installs which, according to yer accusations, should also be
impossible and guess what ... i never had a problem. sure, redhat wants you to
buy their cd. linux may be free, but redhat needs to generate revenue to offer
you the best linux solution they can, plus lots of value added stuff. but
would they sabotage their own product and force you to pay for it?
sounds like you've been running microsoft products for too long.
josh
Said TripKill <tripkill@1starnet.com> on Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 10:23:42PM -0600:
> Alright...this may sound outrageous, and I'm not making a threat. To
> tell the truth I'm probably doing this more out of frustration than reason.
> 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'm a LINUX newbie, and if I'm completely out of line I would like to
> hear about it.......
>
>
> Thanks for listening,
>
> TripKill
>
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> End of redhat-digest Digest V98 Issue #1397
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