Re: off topic : WinLinux
No, don't give up Jiri... it's worth the effort. But if you tried so many
distributions,
I'm surprised you didn't achieve . A lot of people around me jumped in
without
(or with few) problems, and they are not "gurus". Some of them installed
Redhat 5.1,
5.2, 6.0; Mandrake 6.0, 6.2; SuSE . So for me there can be two reasons it
failed for
you:
- there are problems with your hardware;
- or you don't do it right 
If you have some standard hardware, it should be ok. The problems can be
- if you have scsi drives, you should choose a kernel with scsi support
- same if you don't have an IDE CD-rom
- graphic card support (for X-Windows part only) - most pci cards are
supported.
recent chipset or agp cards can cause some trouble. see xfree.org site.
Modems or scanners don't interfer in the install. Some distributions you can
find in magazins are sort of "demos" and have only a kernel for a standard
machine.
You have to choose the modules during install. To be sure I answer 'yes' to
every question, cause there are a lot of interdependance. (Big hardDrive
required!)
So do you have an exotic machine?
And I'm sure next time the All Blacks will win against France... [I just saw
the
match, a friend has recorded- it was great]
Riwal Raude
rauder at thmulti.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jiri Babor [SMTP:J.Babor at GNS.CRI.NZ]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 3:38 AM
> To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Re: off topic : WinLinux
>
> Greg Phillips wrote:
>
> > If you feel up to downloading a 40mb file, I can put doslinux up
> > somewhere, with everything you need to make it pretty (X, KDE, all
> > the libs, etc.). I can also try to help you with the installation
> > process. No guaruntees everything'll work, though =)
>
> You name your place, you set your time, I'll be there. Thanks, Greg!
>
>
> David Cuny wrote:
>
> > I notice that WinLinux, like Linux-Mandrake, is for Pentium-class
> > machines only. Did I read that you put it on a 486?
> >
> > The Cirrus Logic card should be on the list. If the card was not
> > autodetected, you should have at least been given an option to find
> > the card from a list of alternatives.
> >
> > The horror stories I could tell about MY installs...
>
> My poor grasp of English is evident here again: I meant I could use my
> old 486 to read CDs while my PII machine was 'disabled' by Linux. My
> Cirrus Logic card (GD or GA 546X, from memory - I am at work at the
> moment) is not on their list. So I tried a couple that looked close
> enough, as well as the 16 color default, but nothing worked.
>
>
> Jeffrey Fielding wrote:
>
> > WinLinux is a great distribution for experimenting with Linux. It
> > usually seems to get linux up and running very quickly and easily.
> > Unfortunately, I had a lot of problems getting software to run on it. I
> > am using RedHat 6.0 my two other linux machines, and I couldn't get any
> > software I had to run on WinLinux. I was especially disappointed that
> > Euphoria and WordPerfect 8 wouldn't run.
>
> Over the last three years I experimented with Slackware, Debian and
> Red Hat. More recently I tried OpenLinux, SuSE, dosLinux, Mandrake,
> and probably a couple of others, I have already forgotten. Boy, I am
> unlucky! I am sick of experimenting. I want a decent, easy and
> preferably customizable front, with a fast browser, some sort of
> graphics utility, emacs and a handful of compilers. Is that too much
> to ask? And if it can't run Euphoria, I might just as well forget it.
>
>
> Irv Mullins chipped in with:
>
> > Have you forgotten all the hassles we all went thru to get DOS, and
> > later, Windows running? Weird drivers that had to be installed before
> > a hard drive would work - drivers to get a sound card running, to
> > access upper memory, etc. etc.....?
>
> Yeah, but that was ten, twenty years ago. We are supposed to be in the
> era of 'Plug-and-Play' and all sorts of 'Wizards'.
>
> > Linux is much the same, except that instead of learning it over a
> > period of several years, we have to grasp it all at once. And since
> > Linux does a lot more than DOS, there's that much more to grasp.
>
> Like me, Linux is not exactly a new born baby. I do not mind learning
> or grasping anything, if I really need it. But I can't stand, not any
> more, going through half-a-dozen scripts half-a-dozen times just to
> set up a lousy bit of hardware.
>
>
> And Lucius & Kat: Thanks, guys, you probably saved my life!
>
> jiri
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