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Linux: it's now or never! (partie I)



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                                 AutoInstall is for experts, not beginners!!! sur
                                 comp.os.linux.misc et alt.os.linux. Ceux qui veulent
                                 poursuivre en anglais pourront le faire là-bas. J'ai
                                 aussi posté sur ces deux conférences un message
                                 intitulé "The Glass Cathedral" où je conteste la
                                 vision exprimée par Eric raymond dans "The
                                 Cathedral and the Bazaar".

                                 Reinier Post écrivait/wrote:

                                 >gillesp@spamMEnot_mmic.net ( (Gilles Pelletier))
                                 wrote:
                                 >
                                 >>I installed Gnome 6.1 last weekend. Everything
                                 went well until the
                                 >>menu driven installation refused to install the
                                 server (driver?) for
                                 >>my Mach32 video card. I then had to go to the
                                 prompt.
                                 >
                                 >At the prompt, as root, type 'yast', and you're back
                                 in the automatic
                                 >installation seat.

                                 Oh, great! My video card problem is fixed, but I
                                 could get my CF keyboard back with your precious
                                 advice. The process is even more automatic than in
                                 DOS, where you have to write a line in config.sys
                                 and two in autoexec.bat. (The CF keyboard wasn't
                                 available on the first steps of installation, I believe.)

                                 But... oups! CTRL + ALT don't work, only Alt Gr. And
                                 oups again, capitals letters ÈËÊÀÎÏ , save É, aren't
                                 available. Hum... I still prefer to write three lines in
                                 DOS.

                                 >>So, I figured out that a beginner would be much
                                 better of building his
                                 >>system manually. You know, mkdir /dev, /mnt,
                                 /cdrom, whatever...
                                 >
                                 >SuSE has 4.5 gig of software and you want to install
                                 and configure it
                                 >manually?

                                 No. Not the software, just the monitor, mouse,
                                 keyboard, etc. ; create users, delete users, create
                                 shadow passwords;. and mount, umount, etc.

                                 There's a utility called "amd" which is supposed to
                                 simplify the process of mounting -- unmounting. Do
                                 you know what it does? This is really a pain! In DOS,
                                 I simply insert the disquette, type "d" (which is
                                 doskey for "DIR /O/P/S") then enter. For the following
                                 disquettes, I use the up arrow instead of "d".

                                 Better yet, if I want to find a file, I do:
                                 "ou foobar" instead of "d"
                                 ("où" is french for "where" and is doskey for "DIR %1
                                 /O/P/S"

                                 "tr www.foobar.com" makes a traceroute with date
                                 and time,
                                 Etc.

                                 Now, I certainly won't pretend that you can do as
                                 much with DOSKEY and batch files as with shell
                                 scripts, but it's more than enough for the casual user;
                                 it's fairly easy to use and you don't have to roam in
                                 HOWTOs and FAQs to learn to write them. Any book
                                 for beginners can teach you to write a batch file. Of
                                 course, batch files seem to be outmoded. People use
                                 Windows "as it is." 

                                 (suite à la partie II)