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  From: Adam Hawes <adam_hawes@dingoblue.net.au>
  To  : Andy Zivkovic <andy@zivkotech.net.au>
  Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 18:45:10 +1030

Re: Any Questions to Red Hat, Mandrake You'd Like To Ask?

> Network installs are the strange thing too (i only do network
> installs. i can't remember the last time I installed from a CD).
> RedHat is aimed at servers as well as desktops and the network
> install does not use X (which is fair enough). Mandrake's 
> network install still does X, so the second stage install 
> is about 100 meg i think, so it takes a while to even start the
> network install (luckily I had the ISO on a local network 
> machine). Mandrake seems to be targeting desktops though, 
> so i don't see this as a big problem.

I just did a network install of RH6.2 (7.1 is too big for my poor
old 486) and it installed with a graphical installer.  I don't
if the latest Redhats ditched graphics for the network install.
I did have some trouble getting RH6.2 to mount the CD over NFS,
even though the CD was mounted and reading just fine, as soon as
it went to install the packages the installer froze.  Copying the
CD to the hard disk in the NFS server and changing the export
path fixed it... strange!

Anywho, just my $0.02 + GST

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