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To: damniseedemons who wrote (22444)	1/20/1999 6:25:00 PM
From: micromike	Respond to of 24154

. I put Red Hat 5.1 on both a desktop and it was quite challenging (and while I'm not a professional/experienced programmer, I'm still very good with computers). I would have liked to install it on my laptop, but it's a no-go with NeoMagic graphics chips Try ver 5.2 it has more drivers than 5.1 and is easier to install but I don't know if it supports NeoMagic.

To: damniseedemons who wrote (22444)	1/20/1999 7:51:00 PM
From: Marcelo Magnasco	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

I put Red Hat 5.1 on both a desktop and it was quite challenging (and while I'm not a professional/experienced programmer, I'm still very good with computers). I would have liked to install it on my laptop, but it's a no-go with NeoMagic graphics chips. Hey Sal, I went through exactly the opposite experience some time ago. I've installed Linux on a lot of machines, even on a Toshiba Libretto which is quite challenging. Could do it in my sleep. But then two months ago I had to install Windows 98 from scratch. On a blank disk. (Built the machine myself). It's a nightmare. It's scary. It's sloppy. It involved at least eight reboots. The only reason RedHat is considered more difficult to install is that nobody ever installs Windows 98 from scratch, it comes installed or you upgrade from something else. Just to give you a notion: there is absolutely no way you can install W98 while preserving a preexisting partition structure. It wipes out the disk. I.e., if you already have linux, you'll have to reinstall linux afterwards. [Well, at least no way I could find. If anyone knows how to do this I'd be quite grateful]. So far I never, ever, had to reinstall Windows after a RedHat installation. After installing W98, my graphics card was still not quite recognized, nor my motherboard's APM, etc etc: I had to install their drivers. RedHat supplies everything. Finally, NeoMagic chips have been supported for at least a year. I installed RedHat on a Sharp Actius 150 not long ago and it works beautifully. With KDE it looks like the upper bound of coolness. m

To: damniseedemons who wrote (22444)	1/21/1999 2:07:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

<< I was mad at Dell about this, however, because they don't make it easy. >> Dell: great advertising, poor technical execution. Cheap-ass approach.

To: damniseedemons who wrote (22444)	1/21/1999 9:18:00 PM
From: Justin Banks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Sal - I would have liked to install it on my laptop, but it's a no-go with NeoMagic graphics chips. Actually, you can download the driver for 5.1, and 5.2 has it included. I get 1024x??? on my Dell laptop @ work. I thought about installing NT to dual boot, but NT is such a tremendous PITA to install that I axed my NTFS partition, did a mkfs on it, and mounted it as /usr/people/justinb ;) I've installed WordPerfect, and that gets me through the tough spots where people @ work think that mailing out 19+MB worth of data to say 'Meet me in the parking lot' is an example of 'personal productivity' -justinb

To: damniseedemons who wrote (22444)	1/22/1999 8:49:00 PM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Learning about Linux netguide.com