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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (51)10/1/1997 11:12:00 AM
From: Justin Banks   of 74
 
Harvey -

Spent a night trying to get Linux up. No luck. Product still pretty rough. Gave up on Slackware almost immediately as fooling around with creating diskettes seems primitive in this day and age. Open Linux looked more promising as it boots directly from the CD. But after 6 installs each time trying to get X-Windows to recognize my Mouse I gave up.

What kind of mouse do you have? X should get set up more or less automagically, using the script (I can't forget what it's called) in /usr/local/X11/lib/xdm (the last directory may not be right, may be X something). Personally, I went the Slackware route, using the diskettes, and had very little problems.

Nothing more unfriendly than a Unix command line without any experience or documentation.

VMS ;)
Really, though, you ought to get some docs. They'll help lots, and I think they only cost ~ $20.

Nope dropped out of the bidding. I just got dual 16mb IDE caching controllers working on my $200. pentium pro system and I want to go to the next level. Good thing I'm not into the expensive IRIX boxes.

Well, you certainly can't buy one for $200, but a $4k one will come with all the controllers you'll probably want (PCI incl.), and it's SCSI. Why go IDE? The disks are cheaper, aren't they?

-justinb
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