[luau] Startup Disk for 7.2

[Dan George]

Warren
             I would just do a clean install of 7.2 if I could get a good
set of disks.  Or even 7.3.  I know 7.1 just doesnt  cut it with the drivers
available.

Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan George" <georgee002 at hawaii.rr.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] Startup Disk for 7.2


> Warren
>                Im not really efficient with Linux on installing drivers
even
> though I have the 7.x driver on my Netgear CD for my sony laptop, I dont
> know how to configure it in the etc/pcmcia files in 7.1 which I installed
on
> my laptop.  But of course if you think I should use 7.3 and that it may
> already have the latest drivers available Im willing to do that.  But how
> would I install the 7.3 package when my first attempt at burning the 7.2
and
> 7.3 version failed.  Maybe I should just break down and buy it?  Or can
you
> email instructions on how to do this which I will gladly trade any
> information I may have that may be valueble to you.  I believe a version
of
> Dreamweaver and Flash MX for Linux is coming.. My scrub buddies on the
> mainland have told me.
>
> Dan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
> To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 4:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [luau] Startup Disk for 7.2
>
>
> > I do agree that Red Hat 7.2 + all Errata packages is very stable and
> usable,
> > but it takes a while to upgrade.  Do you normally apply all updates?  It
> is
> > very easy with Red Hat Network and up2date.
> >
> > Red Hat 7.3 has a much newer kernel that supports more hardware, KDE
3.0.0
> > which is a big improvement over KDE 2.2.2, and also hundreds of other
bug
> > fixes over Red Hat 7.2.  Linuxconf was removed because it is a poorly
> > written and unreliable tool.  Often it becomes unusable and freezes for
> > seemingly no reason if you have modified configs (like networking)
either
> > manually or with other tools.  Notice that even Mandrake re-wrote all
the
> > tools within Linuxconf within their new DrakConf.  I would suspect that
> > Linuxconf is slated for removal from Mandrake too.
> >
> > If you REALLY want Linuxconf you can install the Linuxconf packages from
> Red
> > Hat 7.2, or from the official Linuxconf site:
> > http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf
> >
> > Red Hat removed Linuxconf because it was a constant nightmare of bugs
that
> > were unsupportable because it is so poorly designed.  They however made
a
> > mistake in replacing it with a set of poorly organized tools that are
> > difficult to find, however functional.  I have criticized them on this
> > point, and I hope that they will fix this by the next (possibly 8.0)
> > version.  Mandrake's DrakConf or SuSE's YaST model is very good by
> > comparison.
> >
> > Ultimately you shouldn't need to rely on GUI or TUI config tools.  You
> > become a better administrator if you learn about manually editing the
text
> > config files, because your knowledge transfers to other Linux, BSD and
> Unix
> > systems which may have different configuration tools.  Your overall
> > understanding of how the system works too, meaning quicker diagnosis of
> > problems that you may encounter down the line.
> >
> > This being said, I am willing to help anyone learn these skills.  Please
> ask
> > if you would like to learn about 7.3 (without Linuxconf) ways of
> configuring
> > certain things.  I'll write about the replacement config tools, and
manual
> > config editing.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan George" <LinuxDan at hawaii.rr.com>
> > To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 3:38 PM
> > Subject: Re: [luau] Startup Disk for 7.2
> >
> >
> > > Warren
> > >              What is there to like about 7.3?  Its displacing all the
> > great
> > > Linux commands from the command line interface like Linuxconf.  In
class
> > our
> > > instructor criticized 7.3 and instead of instructing in 7.3 he used
7.2.
> > > But unfortuneately the disk copy I have is bad of 7.2 and they dont
sell
> > it
> > > anymore at CompUSA.
> > >
> > > Dan
> >
> >
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