[plug] New subscriber

[Paul Day]

Actually, iiNet has no less support for any other distro of Linux.

When the policy on Linux support was last laid down by iiNet's old Head of
Support (Glen Lewis) about a year and a half ago, iiNet supported:
- Linux connection issues, primarily using pppd with PAP or scripted
login.
- Netscape
- pine and elm
- tin

That's from the top of my head - I can't find the email. They don't
support one distribution any more than another - you'll probably find it
hard getting much linux help from iiSupport. If you get a Linux user on
the phone - they'll probably be more than happy to help. Probably get more
luck from lists like this. :)

Personally, I choose RedHat over Mandrake - but you'll probably find them
just as easy/difficult to setup.

The sepcs of your machine are more than enough to get Linux working, but
if you plan on trying to get X-windows working aswell, it will be a
little on the slow side.

As for the error you've got: When did that error come up? As soon as
fdisk/disk-druid loaded or as you tried to write the allocations to the
disk?

PD


On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Anvil Iron wrote:

> I am a new subscriber,
> I have a pentium 100  6.4gighard drive with 28mb of RAM. this will be
> upgraded in the near future.
> I bought the "Linux pocketbook third edition" and I have the choice of
> Mandrake7.2 or Redhat7.0.
> I chose redhat simply because my isp says it has limited support for this
> package.
> I got this error in the disk partition stage of the install
>
> Error Last cylinder is not free
> File ERRORS.txt not found - no verbose mesages available
> Bye!
>
> Does any one know how to fix this or where I would search to find more info.
> Finally am I expecting too much to run linux on the above spec machine?
>
>
> Regards.
> Colin.Morton
> Perth, Western Australia.
> iron at iinet.net.au
> whitworthsocket at yahoo.com
>

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Paul Day
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