[plug] Slackware 7

[Peter Wright]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 01:48:43PM +0800, Christian wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 11:53:59AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > Christian wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 10:47:27AM +0800, russ wrote:
> > >> My brother is having problems with his Slackware 7 install.
> > >> Could anyone help?
> > > Yeah, install Debian/Red Hat/Mandrake/SuSE/<insert any other
> > > Linux distribution here>.
> > 
> > Oh, very helpful.
> 
> Yeah, I'm afraid I couldn't come up with a glib, meaningless and
> ultimately superficial comment.

You need to believe in yourself more. :)

> Either way, my recommendation still stands: don't install Slackware;
> find something (anything!) else which will do the job better and
> give you all/any benefits that you presently see in Slackware.

To the original poster (Russ, I believe) - while I'm not really into
religious distro wars, Christian's recommendation actually does have
some validity. It's worth your brother trying to install another
distro, even just to see if the problem can be reproduced on those.

I had a strange problem on a HP Vectra PC with a SCSI disk -
attempting to install OpenBSD and FreeBSD failed, with both having
difficulty recognising the disk and even when installed, failing to
boot from the disk. NetBSD, by contrast, worked (and booted) fine the
first time.

Similarly, I've heard reports from a novice-Linux-user friend who
managed to install Corel Linux on his machine, didn't really like
certain aspects of it (can't remember precisely why) and tried
Mandrake Linux on my recommendation (for an easy-to-install-and-use
Linux distro). Mandrake simply locked up during the install process,
every time - no error message, no clue as to why.

Sometimes a certain combination of hardware will (for some bizarre
reason) give one distribution fits, while another will chug on quite
happily.

At the very least, if your brother tries (for example) Redhat or
Debian and can reproduce the aforementioned problem, there'll be a few
more people on this list that might be able to help him out by
offering concrete suggestions - I think the Slackware-using population
of the list is pretty low at the moment :).

Pete.
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