Re: installation frustration

1998-12-31 Thread Sourcerer
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:53:49 -0500 (EST), Sourcerer wrote: > > >Afaik, none of the commercial os's allow for it in their installs. > > Untrue. Afaik it was true. Thanks for the info. > OS/2 allows you to use

Re: installation frustration

1998-12-29 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:53:49 -0500 (EST), Sourcerer wrote: >Afaik, none of the commercial os's allow for it in their installs. Untrue. OS/2 allows you to use Boot Manager to dual boot and even points you in the right direction to do it. IIRC WinNT also do

Re: installation frustration

1998-12-29 Thread Sourcerer
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Bill Newman wrote: > I'm an experienced Linux user. I just tried to install Debian on my > Toshiba 225CDS. It was not a good out of the box experience. I think there are laptop install apps in Debian > When choosing modules, the PPP module description says something that >

Re: installation frustration

1998-12-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Bill Newman wrote: > > I'm an experienced Linux user. I just tried to install Debian on my > Toshiba 225CDS. It was not a good out of the box experience. > > I ordered the most recent CD Cheapbytes had -- 2.0 (hamm). > > Booting from the CDROM fails -- the console ann

Re: installation frustration

1998-12-29 Thread Sourcerer
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Bill Newman wrote: > I'm an experienced Linux user. I just tried to install Debian on my > Toshiba 225CDS. It was not a good out of the box experience. > > I ordered the most recent CD Cheapbytes had -- 2.0 (hamm). > > Booting from the CDROM fails -- the console announces t