Distro of the day . . .

[Tony Hammitt]

I haven't really been burning CD's much lately.  I find that
it's easier to just grab the image, mount it loopback, export
the directory and use the NFS install method.  Sure, you still
have to make a floppy for the system to boot off of, but it's
not like that's a big deal.  100Mb ethernet is faster than a CD
anyway.

Then after I know that the system works, I may end up making a
CD just to take to the meetings, 'cuz I'm such a nice guy...
(I'm really a jerk, but I try to not let it show)

I've _got_ to get a linux box here at work.  This windoze piece
of shit is really starting to bother me.  How in the hell can a
personal computer with an 850MHz processor and 1/4 GB of RAM
possibly skip when playing MP3's??  I've tried Sonique and
WinAmp and they both stink.  Does anyone know of a better
player? (besides bringing in the laptop and running xmms =-)

BTW, I got 2.4.1 running on the SMP box last night.  Seems
pretty slick.  It was an interesting challenge getting it to
boot with devfs without devfsd on a heavily upgraded RH6.1 OS.
"/dev/mouse?  WTF is that?" says the kernel...  But besides gpm
and getty not working, the system was fine after I put
/dev/discs/disc0/part1 or some such in /etc/fstab.  Devfs is
not really hard to use, and it sure is a lot more logically
arranged.  I just hope that someone is eventually going to come
out with a distro that doesn't use devfsd in preference for the
'real' names...

Well, anyway, hope you're having a better time with Mandrake.
Can't wait for the 2.4 based distros to hit the shelves.

Regards,

    Tony

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Kelsay <bkelsay at askpioneer.com>
To: 'Brian Densmore' <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>; 'Bradley Miller'
<bradmiller at dslonramp.com>; <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 10:43 AM
Subject: RE: Distro of the day . . .

> Yeah, but if you screw up a floppy you can try again with the same one.  A
> CD becomes a coaster.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Densmore [mailto:DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 10:05 AM
> > To: 'Bradley Miller'; 'kclug at kclug.org'
> > Subject: RE: Distro of the day . . .
> >
> >
> > Brad,
> >
> >    Have you tried burning the cd's so that they are bootable.
> > If you can
> > make the CD boot, you are much better off than trying to get
> > those STUPID
> > floppies to work right. I always have trouble putting just
> > the right image
> > on the floppy to boot (it's only because I always grab the
> > wrong one from
> > the wrong directory the first time, or two, or ...).
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Brian
> >
> > Brian Densmore <mailto:DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Bradley Miller [mailto:bradmiller at dslonramp.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 7:55 AM
> > > To: kclug at kclug.org
> > > Subject: Distro of the day . . .
> > >
> > >
> > > Ok -- I've played around with some settings on trying to get
> > > Slackware to
> > > run . . . I'm not in the mood to bash my head against a brick
> > > wall.   Now
> > > I'm downloading the latest Mandrake.  (Thank God for DSL --
> > > 790Kbps right
> > > now . . . )   We'll see how this goes.   At the very least
> > > I'll have a nice
> > > CD collection.  :-/
> > >
> > > -- Bradley Miller
>