About to Give up on YDL for PM 6500s

[Jared Pedroza]

Actually, it is standardized, for linux. If you are used to a variant of 
BSD unix, the files are in different locations, but the file locations 
are standard for linux. I know the feeling of frustration, I am used to 
FreeBSD, OpenBSD and MacOS X. I ran into the same error on configuring 
the network, it said that there was no network interface. I just let it 
finish, booted and configured it at the command line. One thing that 
threw me off is the face that there is no "network" file in 
/etc/sysconfig" until you make it or use the GUI configuration tools to 
set up the network.

I agree about the whold Windows issue. I will take my G4 over a WinTel 
machine anyday.

Jared


On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 04:09  PM, Gary Vankirk wrote:

> I'm using the original network card. It was a pain in the a* to get it 
> to work (I will be installing a second, Asante, card when it arrives, 
> so that the machine can straddle our internal network and the DSL 
> line). I finally got adduser to work by doing the custom install, first 
> installing the "workstation" package, then immediately installing the 
> "server" package. Networking CANNOT be configured during the install on 
> this machine. I've wiped the drive and installed 5 times over a 2-day 
> period. I'm now trying to get proftpd to work. I have our UNIX guru 
> sitting in. She gets frustrated because things are not put in the 
> directories where you would expect them to be, apparently this is not 
> standardized.
>
> This, at least the setup of it, is not ready for Grandma and Grandpa, 
> nor my wife or my mother, or any of the people who work here (a 
> newspaper). I can't say about usability, I haven't gotten that far.
>
> I don't think that Mac users are spoiled, Windows users are just 
> deprived (and I own 5 of those damned machines) and I don't know why 
> THEY put up with it.
>
> gary
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