| From: | Andrew Crowe |
| Date: | 4 Aug 2000 at 19:46:07 |
| Subject: | Re: Linux? Tell me more. |
Hi Everybody,
> I found installing RedHat very easy. Just boot the kernal with the
> installation ramdisk and follow the onscreen prompts.
Yeah, that's the easy bit of installing. Once you have to set up
the FB device to actually display in PAL, then try to figure out why
GNOME etc doesn't work etc and you've got a major job on your
hands...
> If you think that was hard you should have tried it in the
> 'watchtower' days. There was no 68k distribution available then.
The
> Watchtower was a (very old) dump of a ST users harddrive. You had
to
> download & install the new packages by hand.
>
See ya :)
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