Am I a newbie? I dont know. Since 1992 I have been using NEXTSTEP, then since 1998 Linux. The first install made a friend of mine. It was OpenLinux. When I wanted to upgrade I tried to install a new OpenLinux by myself. All went smooth -- but I never managed to install ISDN. So I wiped it out and tried Slink.
Dselect is reaaly not very userfriendly but the real problem is not dselect. The problem is to configure your system. You have to know what kind of informations you need to configure ISDN, Network, Printers, Fax-modems etc. I had all written down from my old installation, which I left bootable, to have a fallback-system, if I ran into troubles. So the only thing I had to do, was to search for the right config-files, where I filled in the all the things I had in my old config-files. So I had no problems. But if someone never saw his Linux-guru-friend writing the line "S3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x 3 ttyS3" into inittab to get the fax running, how can he ever configure it? Generally I think that noone would ever ask how difficult or easy a linux-installation is, when you buy computers with preinstalled linux. Did you ever read an article about how to install windows? Ciao! juh -- juh's Sudelbuch Literatur und Satire per E-Mail http://www.sudelbuch.de
