Flavors of Linux/UNIX

[Carl Yost Jr.]

Solaris for intel :) will dual boot also :). I just went out and bought a sun box for home though so I got rid of the solaris for intel :D




---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Robert Pope" <Pope at ecc.edu>
Reply-To: nflug at nflug.org
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 08:53:55 -0500

>To all:
> 
>Thanks to the people who sent suggestions about DNS. That did the trick.
>Now for the other good news. Received a computer for a Christmas
>present, see what a good boy I am ?. This machine will dual boot with
>Win 98 and ?????. I have been reading all the messages about the
>"flavors of Linux", Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware (go Navy). Which
>one to install? Any suggestions? No one has ever mentioned BSD hmm.  
> 
> 
>(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((<>)))))))))))))))
>)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
>
>	-----Original Message----- 
>	From: Robert Dege 
>	Sent: Tue 12/18/2001 8:42 AM 
>	To: nflug at nflug.org 
>	Cc: 
>	Subject: RE: your mail
>	
>	
>
>
>	Check that your DNS entries are correct/inserted.  After a
>connection, try
>	pinging a site through IP & hostname:
>	
>	ping www.nflug.org
>	
>	ping 209.118.201.20
>	
>	This will give you an idea if it's a DNS problem.
>	
>	And just to keep this Linux(ish), make sure that you have your
>partitions
>	properly set (aka, enough space allocation for both OS's).
>	
>	;)
>	
>	-Rob
>	
>	> Hi
>	>
>	> I realize that this is a Linux forum but .........
>	>
>	> I recently up-graded my PC from WinMe (with Internet access)
>to Win
>	> 2000. My ultimate goal is to run both Win 2000 (for school
>work) and Red
>	> Hat (for personal use) on the same machine. Before I load Red
>Hat
>	> however I need to be able to connect to the Internet. using
>Windows
>	> 2000. (my wife uses Windows and is not interested in RH) and
>then I want
>	> to access the Internet with RH.. My problem is that the ISP I
>am trying
>	> to use connects my machine to its server but will not load
>the Web
>	> site(s). The error message that I receive is "can't locate the
>server".
>	> Any suggestions ? I would really like to stay with this ISP
>(personal
>	> reasons).
>	>
>	> Thank you
>	>
>	>
>(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((())))))))))))))))))))))))))))
>	> )))))))))))))))
>	>
>	>
>	>       -----Original Message-----
>	>       From: Robert Dege
>	>       Sent: Tue 11/20/2001 11:40 AM
>	>       To: Nflug (E-mail)
>	>       Cc: Ron Wechter (E-mail)
>	>       Subject: Re: your mail
>	>
>	>
>	>
>	>
>	>       > I  am a novice Redhat Linux 7.1 user and plan on
>buying 7.2 .
>	> I am
>	>       > currently duel booting 7.1 with Win 2000. Can anyone
>tell me
>	> more about
>	>       > GRUB and will it let me duel boot without using the
>lilo?
>	>
>	>       7.2 allows you to choose between LILO and Grub as your
>	> bootloader.  So if
>	>       you're familiar with LILO, you don't have to change.
>	>
>	>       A GRUB HOWTO:
>	>
>	>
>	>
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_sing
>	> le/Multiboot-with-GRUB.html
>	>
>	>       Nice thing about GRUB:
>	>       You can hide partitions (3 partitions of Windows, each
>one will
>	> think it
>	>       is installed on C Drive)
>	>       You don't have to reload Grub when you modify the conf
>file
>	>       Nice GUI interface (better than the old LILO interface)
>	>
>	>       Bad things about GRUB:
>	>       when doing a make install on a kernel, the last command
>is to
>	> use lilo.
>	>       So you get a cosmetic error message.
>	>       The command line interface at boot time has a higher
>learning
>	> curve.
>	>
>	>
>	>       Dege
>	>
>	>       Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get
>out, but
>	>       they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of
>chocolate cake.
>	>
>	>
>	>
>	>
>	
>	
>	
>	Dege
>	
>	Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but
>	they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.
>	
>	
>
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