Re: tlug: Unhelpful installation

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Darren Cook wrote:

> >Darren - you mentioned earlier that you were unimpressed with the ease of
> the RH
> >installation  - were you refering to the lack of info on partition sizes -
> that
> >...
> >When installing FreeBSD, besides manual partitioning, there is an "auto"
> >partition option which partions your hard drive into four generically sized
> 
> My main problems were the lack of these "auto" options, and also the lack
> of context-sensitive help. Once I know what I'm doing I might want to be
> more in control, but for a first install I don't really care because I
> don't have the experience to make an intelligent decision.
> 
> On just about every screen I was desperately looking for a way to say "I
> don't know, what would you recommend?" or "I don't care, I'll have whatever
> is normal".

IIRC, Redhat ships with a nice big manual.  I haven't read it, though.
Have you? :)  Honestly I don't know how in-depth their installation help
is in the manual.  I've tried to make it as in-depth as possible in the
TurboLinux user's guide, though, which actually might help you, since TL
and RH have similar installation procedures, esp. with regard to
partitioning... see:

http://www.turbolinux.com/support/tl20docs.html

Let me know if it's at all helpful.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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