🚀 go-pugleaf

redhat's a bad distro. The thing fscking just won't install. I can get
Slack, Caldera, Gentus (sp?) and Mandrake to install fine. These clowns
just don't have their install working yet.

In article <h2Hvy9VQtMnr-pn2-
GZ9R9esGmmie@angn23cy32ch.bc.hsia.telus.net>,
  mikestp@telus.net wrote:
> My sister just arrived for a visit here in western Canada
> (Vancouver) from Australia.  I asked her to bring me a copy of
> the CDROM package that was included with the Australian Personal
> Computer mag.  It has a copy of Warp 4, BEOS 5, And Redhat 6.2.
>
> Well I tried to install Redhat 6.2 on my system. The way I have
> it partitioned is as follows:
> I have two physical drives. the first is a 13 gig IDE, the second
> is a 2 gig SCSI drive.
>
> First partition is OS/2 boot manager  (takes up 7 megs)
> Second partition is a 2 gig primary FAT partition that had
> Windows NT 4.0 on it
> Third partition is a 1 gig  primary partition that has Warp 4 on
> it
> Fourth partition is a 6 gig data logical partition formatted with
> HPFS
> Fifth, sixth and seventh are HPFS logical partitions.
> Finally I have an old SCSI drive formatted HPFS of 2 gigs in
> size.
>
> After booting up the CDROM, I went through most of the install
> with no problems until I came to the Druid for the drives.  I
> have rarely seen such a poorly described procedure. This is why
> Linux is abhorred by a great many computer users.
>
> When you are doing something as important as deleting partitions
> there needs to be a far better description of what it is you are
> doing.  Even I could write a better FDISK manager than the one in
> RedHat 6.2.
>
> The Disk Druid allowed me to delete the partition of 2 gigs that
> used to have my NT 4.0 on it.  Although it did not tell me to do
> so, after 10 mins I gathered that to make it format as a Linux
> partition, I had to delete it first.  Now many of you out there
> are now saying "so what, that is easy"  Well Let me tell you.
> the FDISK Druid reports my Boot manager partition as partition 2,
> the NT partition as #3, the Warp partition as #4.  I can tell you
> it is unnerving to say the least when it comes to deleting
> partitions, when the utility to help you determine what
> partitions are what, is distinctly different than the actual
> drive layout according to OS/2 Boot Manager.
>
>  Anyhow after doing that I was unable to choose to go to the next
> installation screen.  So after mucking about with no success, I
> went and chose the FDISK option in the earlier setup screen. This
> at least allowed me a character based fdisk that was able to do a
> bit more.  However, after deleting the NT partition and adding a
> new partition, and then "W"riting it to the disk, I was still
> unable to go beyond to the next installation screen.  After a
> further 20 mins of trying all sorts of other possibilities, I
> gave up. At least the magazine also included a copy of Warp 4. So
> all is not lost.
>
> I guess I can re-install a NT 4 or a Win 2000 on the now empty 2
> gig partition.
>
> BTW I have seen the similar screwups with Caldera, and Corel
> Linux as well, so I assume they are all the same installation
> code.
>
> I can and do install FREEBSD over my DSL connection and this
> works well.  It seems FREEBSD had no troubles with Boot Manager.
> I wish the people writing the Linux installation would wake up!
>
> This is precisely why Linux will never catch up to Windows (And
> believe me I pray that it does).  It needs much improvement over
> its current form.  I fear it will never get that needed
> improvement until a big corp like Sun or IBM takes it on.  And
> that will never happen because the Linux loonies will never let a
> mega Corp do anything with it.
>
> I actually suspect IBM is a bit at fault here with some screwups
> in the OS/2 Boot Manager as well as the Linux crap.  But there
> are millions of OS/2 users who have Boot Manager, and if the
> Linux crowd does not understand how to make an installation work
> with OS/2 boot manager, it only reflects the attitude I have
> always suspected of Linux loonies.
>
> That is they are for the most part , happy with cloning the
> Windows system.  In other words, the Windows crowd has eaten
> porridge every day for their whole lives, and the windows
> refugees who are leaving to go to Linux, are quite happy to
> continue to eat porridge. After all it is the only thing they are
> familiar with and all they are aware of.  This is always the way
> it will be.   OS/2 users on the other hand are more used to
> eating off of a varied menu, and are reluctant to suffer with the
> same porridge.
>
> Damm I wish IBM could separate the upper management from the
> talented software writers, and hire the engineers to run the show
> instead of the current bean counters and idiot sales staff!
>
> From the Desk of Mike Stephen
> Micro$oft has performed an illegal operation,
>  and will be shut down.
>
> From the Desk of Mike Stephen
> Micro$oft has performed an illegal operation,
>  and will be shut down.
>


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