Re: bloody newbies

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Ross wrote:

> a hardware modem as opposed to a winmodem. i haven't found anyone yet
> who will commit themselves. some people witter on about black cases and
> only buy isa modems.

You can get isa winmodems too :(( . Generally, all you can do is say you
want a modem that doesn't depend on Windows. If it doesn't work, take it
back - they can't refuse to refend you, it's THE LAW ;)

> as for winmodems, there are drivers for one make, i can't remember which
> off the top of my head. but i'd recomend you forget about it for the
> time being.

Lucent have drivers out, but they're binary only and only guaranteed with
2.2.12 (I think), plus they're supposed to be pretty buggy IIRC...

> >>irresponsible answer:
> >>'mount /mnt/cdrom
> >>cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS
> >>rpm -ivh *.rpm'
> i hope you realise he's taking the piss slightly. a high level of
> intelligence does give some people have a strange sense of humor!

I wasn't taking the piss!! He said, How do I install everything?. The
above will certainly do that. The point being, the above will install KDE,
but everything else as well including the kitchen sink. Basically,
everything on the disk would get installed. Sorry if I didn't make that
clear !!

> even if you only selected KDE as your desktop, you should still have
> part of gnome desktop installed..... click on the K menu button at the
> bottom left, there should be an entry for gnome applications and a sub
> entry for gnorpm.

That's not part of the GNOME desktop, it just installs the GNOME-libs I
believe? It means you can run GNOME apps under KDE, but you don't actually
have 'GNOME' per se installed. It's like vbrun300.dll - you need it to run
Visual Basic apps, but having it doesn't mean you have Visual Basic
installed.

> but then again..............nah, no thanks Al !!! stick with find files
> (under the K menu)

Yes, that is another way of doing things ;). I was trying to offer an
'assume least' method, i.e. assuming he had virtually no useful tools
installed on his machine ;)

> stick with it though..... you will get the system running well
> eventually. there's a lot of learning to be done. you will find other
> distributions easier to use though (i use suse 6.3 it doesn't get much
> easier £32)

Certainly, SuSE is much easier compared to RedHat - I'm not sure if anyone
on this list will reccomend RedHat at the moment. :(

Regards,

Al.

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