>
> I made the boot floppy. Plugged it in, pushed the reset and watched what
> might have been an OS/2 config.sys jerkingly scroll by on that good ole DOS
> black panel.
> THen it stopped, started to ask questions. I answered. It said, and do
> you
> want to install LILO? Sure, why not. Would you like to install Lilo in the
> MBR?
> Sure why not. So I did. I installed a printer [mine wasn't there so I went
> with
> a close generic. It asked me for my server. Server? What server? I am
> looking
> at a setup screen for my video card [which wasn't in the selection]. Do
> they
> refer to a video cards as a "server"? Anyway, there was no recommendation
> on what to select if my card is not an option.
>
> I booted the machine. UP popped 'LILO BOOT' with the cursor winking at me.
> I just starred at for a total of four seconds when suddenly it started to
> boot.
> Over a minute, and I ended up with a COMMAND LINE. Not no C:\, but a
> loong one ending with root#. Now what? What do I do now? I ran DIR.
> Nothing.
> CHKDSK. Nothing. Back to the paperback. Back and forth. Trying to find
> some commands. For heaven's sake, I back to the command prompt. I"ve
> come full circle.
>
> The paperback [book] says to set up a few DIR's,,, strange ones at that.
> Nothing
> in the book makes sense on how to set up the DIR's, or why. No list of
> commands, let alone, what they do. All you get is READ the FAQ's on
> HOWTO, MAN and a few others. IT"S NOT CLEAR HOW TO DO THIS.
> What, am I that stupid? How do I VIEW a file?? I really MUST be stupid.
> "type readme.txt, read readme.txt, view readme.txt, SEE readme.txt, hello
> readme.txt,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,nothing. BASH [Why doesn't LINUX have numbers
> after it! Two groups of numbers: one for the number of times you repeated
> the
> error, and another number to go to for reference on the cure?]
> [I'd boot back to DOS but the floppy doesn't have the MORE command on it.
>
> OK, I admit, I'm lazy, and didn't read the book. But the book LACKS.
> Granted,
> it's all on the CD. BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE THE CD INTO THE OFFICE, or
> to the beach.
>
> And, it's arcane. UNIX, LINUX, whatever flavor is too damned complicated
> and I do not want to learn another system. Hell, I don't even want to
> learn
> DOS or OS/2 but you had to,,, back in those days.
>
> TOday, we want to computer to do things for us. Make our life easler,
> more productive, be better informed. Make life BETTER.
>
> BUT I DO NOT WANT TO HAVE TO LEARN ANOTHER DAMNED SYSTEM,
> AND WORK FOR THE COMPUTER, WASTING MY GOOD TIME SEARCHING
> FOR 'DLL'S, LOST FILES, UPGRADES, TWEAKING THE HARDWARE AND
> SOFTWARE.
>
If you expected Linux to be similar to DOS and Windows then I guess you
shouldn't have bothered trying it out. I'm a newbie and I spent about one
half hour planning to install RH 4.2 and it took me another 45 minutes to
install it and get X up and going. You can't expect to install and
configure a different OS on the knowledge of your current OS.
GT
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