[KLUG Members] Re: Install issues -- Bad Intel, trying out Linux installers but not Linux?

Bryan J. Smith members@kalamazoolinux.org
05 Jun 2002 13:55:30 -0400


On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 12:00, Adam Bultman wrote:
> Oh, I'm not trying try a million distros at once-- I'm simply trying to
> find *one* that will install! Ack!  I'm pretty much done 'trying out new
> distros' that I haven't used before.  I wanted to go slimmer than RH on
> this box, like slack or debian, but since they won't install, I'll go with
> the slimmest one I've found: beehive (www.beehive.nu).
> Thanks for all the help, I'm sure I'll be posted again about this..

Most of the time, installation issues are either A) hardware issues or
B) something that is easily worked around by a guru.  This is pretty
applicable to any OS, not just Linux distros.

Regarding B, when's the next KLUG InstallFest?

-- Bryan

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