On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:09:17AM -0600, Miller, John wrote: >I like the idea of general user stuff. I am still fairly new at this and >there is a lot I don't know. Also, preparing for installing an os including >backup ideas and software. I have RH7 on my system and in order to get it >to do what I wanted I just installed everything (not real efficient) so I >would like to reinstall it putting in only what I need. It's not very easy to do a minimal install with the RH Installer IMHO, the GUI takes away alot of your control. >I would like to suggest a session on configuring X11. Mine is working but >it took me about 3 days to get it right. Jeez, talk about beating a dead horse. You can walk through this in about 2 minutes barring any wierdness with your hardware (Like my vaio needing the chipset line to neo200 as opposed to NM2160) and noone can possibly guess at all those possibilities. > >The correct way of adding and removing software. Using RPMs DEBs or getting >the source and compiling on your own. There is no right way. But I think a discussion on the merits of each might be nice. May us debian zealots will learn some cool things about RPM. I doubt it but hey, who knows. Call it package managment or some such. -- Ben Lutgens cell: 612.670.4789 Sistina Software Inc. work: 612.379.5941 Code Monkey Support (A.K.A. System Administrator) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010103/c9441953/attachment.pgp