Agreed. The whole point, I thought, was to bring make it more
newbie-proof and accessible, but had that been my first experience
with Linux, I'd have been pulling my hair out.
Perhaps Red Hat should take some hints from Microsoft's installers --
be more conservative in its initial driver choices, and wait till
after the first boot to attempt certain things. That's one thing
Windows has going for it; you're nearly assured of at least a working
system after an install.
I'd really like to see Red Hat reach their goals, but it looks like
they're pushing ahead too fast in some areas before the products are
ready, and that's not good for them or us.
Speaking of "not good for them or us" (off topic for this list, but
...) has anyone heard anything about Corel's little issue with their
Linux distribution? It was reported recently on the Bugtraq list that
their new package defaults to telnet daemon enabled and a blank root
password ...
-d
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Prentice wrote:
:If the the installer GUI (which I hate, BTW - it's way too slow) can't be
:expected to run on every platform that RH Linux may be installed on, then RH
:should not use it. The install routine should be bomb-proof.
:
:On Wed, 31 May 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
:> On Wed, 31 May 2000, fred smith wrote:
:> > One other small bit of retardedness in the installer:
:> >
:> > I've got a 3-button mouse which emulates a Mouse Systems mouse. If it is
:> > switched into 3-button mode, the installer refuses to run in GUI mode.
:> > I've seen this on 3 different machines, in fact. So, the only way to run
:> > the GUI installer is to switch it into 2-button Microsoft mode, then
:> > reconfigure the mouse when done. Whatta pain.
:> >
:> There's only so much space available on the "boot disk" for
:> drivers, which is one reason why some stuff that is
:> supported by linux is not supported at install time, due to
:> no drivers available in the boot image on the CD. Just
:> because the CD has drivers for your wierd (not saying your
:> mouse is "non-standard" or anything) hardware AFTER
:> install, doesn't mean that there is room in the boot image
:> for that.
:> That's one reasons some video cards will work GREAT in X
:> after the installation, but won't run the GUI installer.
:> John
:>
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