[97980] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Red Hat SCAM?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Fri Nov 6 00:48:32 1998
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 20:44:25 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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TripKill wrote:
>
> Alright...this may sound outrageous,... 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.......
You are out of line. If you buy the boxed CD, it has a manual. In
the manual it says that hard drive installation is POSSIBLE but
not recommended (or supported).
There is nothing unreasonable about making a hard disk install if
you create the hard drive partition with Linux. Why assume it
has to be done with Windows 95? Now THAT is unreasonable. Think
about it a bit.
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