Re: [TCLUG:8942] Red Hat 6.1

[Dave Erickson <gsa700xxx@mediaone.net>]

Yaron wrote:
> 
>   Hi there,
> 
> Well, I got my new HDD today (15.5gig for $129 nice) andsince my old
> install was Red Hat 5.0, I decided it's time to upgrade, so I put RH6.1 on
> it.
> 
> yes, it has a GUI install. It is a piece of crap. I didn't ee any way to
> use fdisk to partition the drive, and the GUI Disk Druid insisted on
> ignoring the drive with no partition table!
> 
> The package chooser... hmm. It's horrible. Took me 10 times longer than
> normal. And the damn thing misidentified my display adapter.
> 
> Anyway, just got my Email system back up (hopefully). It's a bit messy
> copying all my old setup over (;
> 
> -Yaron
> 
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I tried RedHat 6.1 after my complete and utter dissapointment with
Mandrake 6.1. You can get the old style install back by typing "text" at
the boot-up screen. You are right though it is a piece of crap.{So is
mandrake, even worse I think}

That's why my real computer runs Debian.

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