Water water everywhere, but not a drop to drink..

[Philip J. Koenig]

On 24 Jul 2003 at 19:02, Net Llama! boldly uttered: 

> On 07/24/03 18:31, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> > They also have this proprietary driver for RedHat 8.0, which of 
> > course I can't find on Redhat's ftp server and neither does 
> > LinuxISO.org have them.  If anyone can point me to a source for 
> > RedHat 8.0 ISOs, or have another suggestion, I would greatly 
> > appreciate it.  I find it highly ironic that it looks like it would 
> > be cheaper to use Solaris than Linux.. sigh.
> 
> I don't understand.  You can't find RH8 ISOs or you can't find the 
> proprietary RH8 driver for Compaq?


The RH ISOs, which I now have a source for thanks to Andrew.

The first distro I tried was Suse 8.2, which seemed to install pretty 
nicely*, but I couldn't make the RH rpms from Compaq work on. (I 
didn't really investigate the compatibility issues that much before 
charging into it)

I'm guessing I'll like Suse better overall but unfortunately Compaq 
ties my hands.  I already had to give up on running FreeBSD because 
Compaq doesn't provide their stupid driver for that OS at all.


*(did the ftp install, which is free, but takes forever since it 
downloads from Suse's overloaded or throttled server in Germany, but 
I just let it run overnight)


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Philip J. Koenig                                       
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