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Linux: it's now or never! (partie I)
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- Subject: Linux: it's now or never! (partie I)
- From: Gilles Pelletier <>
- Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 22:55:18 -0400
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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)