Morning:
The 6.x series has never asked to install the sound card. You must be
thinking about 5.2 or an earlier incarnation.
<OPINION>
As for the 6.x installers, I honestly think Red Hat is taking a step
backwards with these. I thought the whole idea of each new installer, was
"to leave everything that you had in the previous installer that worked"
in there. I understand you need room for a graphical install. Why does
it have to be on the same floppy disk as the text install? Why can't
there be two separate disks? Maybe even consider a floppy disk for each
different type of install that could be done, IE. Custom, Server,
Workstation, etc. This would really allow Red hat to go into detail,
right in the installer, on what was going to happen to the end-users
machine, before it actually happened.
I really liked the 4.x series of installers. They were clean and covered a
lot of areas that needed to be configured. They also ran ntsysv towards
the end of the installer to allow you to choose what you wanted started at
boot up and what you didn't. They were what got me hooked on Red Hat. I
personally don't care for the graphical install. I really like the
text method.
</OPINION>
As for you Vidiot, you're are a whiner. I've seen several different
postings from you, not just this thread. All you do is complain about the
product and not pose any suggestions in "a constructive manner". It's
always, "Red Hat screwed this up", or "Red Hat did this wrong". Why don't
you accept some responsibility for your own actions. If you borrowed the
"burnt" copy from a friend, with no documentation, then there is no one to
blame but yourself. Red Hat didn't tell you to get their product this
way. They want you to buy their version, with the documentation. Also,
there was never any sound configuration in the 6.x series. Why are you
blaming Red Hat for this? Are you a Linux person or not? Tough to type
sndconfig at tthe command line after the machine boots up? The "Manual"
talks about that.
If you buy a gun, and shoot yourself in the foot, because you where an
idiot and didn't get some training or knowledge on how to use the gun, is
it the gun's fault?
Please, kill the thread already, Vidiot, and put it to rest. Don't
continually try to get the last word in. Think about what you have
encountered and learn from it. This is not Windows.
- Mike
($100.00 says we see a follow-up post to this email from Vidiot) :)
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Vidiot wrote:
> >all of the time you spend complaining about it you could have done
> >something productive to fix your problem..........the first step of
> >getting out of a hole is to stop digging...
>
> I'm just discovering that the hole is deeper with each feature that I used
> to have under 6.0 that didn't come up under 6.1. I didn't dig that hole.
>
> I was in a situation that required a complete reload. So I figured that
> it would be a good time to go from 6.0 to 6.1. Mistake #1. I borrowed
> the Linux 6.1 CD from a friend who had cut an image. No manuals. Mistake
> #2. Created the boot floppy and booted to the installer. Ran auto.
> Mistake #3. At that point, there was no bringing up 6.0 to go out
> to the RedHat site, as the 6.1 installer wiped it out. So, I had to continue
> with 6.1 custom. I believed that the 6.1 installation would provide the
> same level of installation support as 6.0 did. Mistake #4.
>
> The fact that the installation did not configure the printer port or the
> sound card was certainly a hole that I did not dig. That hole was dug
> by the installer. I would certainly like to know how it is my fault that
> the installation didn't ask me to configure a printer or sound card.
>
> I didn't have the time to sit down and fetch 6.1 documentation and study
> it word for word. I had a system that was down that had to get back up.
> I relied upon the previous installs of Linux and what they did. I did
> not expect for the installer to do what it did and what it didn't do.
>
> The 4.x, 5.x and 6.0 installs went so much smoother and better than 6.1.
> Each newer version of RedHat Linux improved upon the previous install.
> If it is my fault for expecting the same type of installation in 6.1 as
> was provided in previous releases, I plead guilty. IMHO, the 6.1 installer
> was a step backwards in various aspects of what it did.
>
> Needless to say, I will never trust another RedHat installation again.
> And that is NOT what RedHat should expect. They should gain more trust
> from their customers, not less. FYI, a RedHat customer is anyone who
> either purchases any of their packages, downloads and cuts their own CD,
> gets a RedHat CD from a third party or friend. If it has the RedHat name
> involved with it, whoever uses it is a customer.
>
> It is a sad chain of events that led up to this. I wish that chain of
> events hadn't happened, but they did.
>
> MB
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