1. Re: ee/Linux released / Win32 Graph. / New Eu Version
- Posted by Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM>
Jul 03, 1999
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Last edited Jul 04, 1999
On Sat, 03 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> ee/linux
> ~~~~~~<snip>
> About Linux. My previous experience wasn't that great. (AGP ati card wasn't
> support, Lilo messed up my partition table, etc.). But, what Linux
> distribution do people recommened. For me, installation easy and large
> amount of drivers support, etc. is very important.
Hi Ralf:
I have tried several distributions: Slackware (2 versions), Red Hat, Mandrake,
and SuSE. My choice right now is SuSE, mainly because it was easiest to
install. Slackware is just as good, and probably works better with Euphoria.
(Don't know yet, will try sometime this weekend) The commercial version of
SuSE is available for about us$35, and well worth the price (6 cd's, a nice
instruction manual, Wordperfect, 60 days installation support,etc.) It has a
Control Center which allows the choice of about 25 languages for many of the
program menus, etc just by clicking. Oops...What does:
Activeren taalinstellingen
De nieuwe taalinstellingen gelden alleen voor
toepassingen die nieuw gestart worden.
Als u de taal van alles direct wil veranderen,
moet u eerst uitloggen.
mean, anyway?
Actually, all the different versions are pretty easy to get running, but they
all have at least one "gotcha" - something they forgot to put in the
instructions. With SuSE, it's necessary to go back and install ppp before you
can connect with the net. You have to read thru the manual before you find
this out. Mandrake forgets to ttell you it will only run on Pentiums...etc...
Slackware is picky about what you name your computer. (can interfere with
connecting to your e-mail)
By the way, LILO doesn't (can't) mess with your partitions. Something else
caused your problem - most likely when you reloaded Windows (which doesn't
bother to check for other OS's on the disk - just writes stuff over anything
that's already there. The worst LILO can do is to hang the boot process,
leaving you with a >LI prompt. This is easy to fix, either from DOS, by
issuing an fdisk /MBR to write the original DOS boot track, or by re-running
LILO to put the LILO boot track back in place.
Proof of this is that I have loaded and reloaded the 5 versions of Linux
at least 3 or 4 times each, without ever damaging any of the DOS partition or
data. And I am not very careful to read the on-screen instructions, either.
You should be very careful with fdisk, however, just as you would be with the
DOS version.
The important thing to remember if you have Linux or OS2 or BEOS or any other OS
on your computer is _never_ reload Windows without making a full backup of the
disk first. Actually, once you get used to any of these others, you probably
won't want to reload Windows anyway.
> Site Updated
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
> I finally updated my site. I lost a lot of my files due to that LILO
> incident mentioned above. Therefor, some of the layout is redone, some of
> the problems are removed (no more javascript error with Netscape, eventhough
> I never even used Javascript ). I have no clue what it looks like with
> Netscape though. ===
The site looks great with Netscape, and with KFM (the KDE desktop/explorer) !
Regards,
Irv
