Re: Help on Installing Independence

[Dinos Kouroushaklis <dinos@bigfoot.com>]

I need someone to walk me through this. I am using a Windows Box with
NO Linux partition.

At 11:32 μμ 21/2/2000 +0100, you wrote:
> > Here I am again.
> >
> > I have taken a look at the RedHat CD and I think that the correct setup is
> > the following:
> >
> > h:\Indy
> > h:\Indy\base
> > h:\Indy\instimage
> > h:\Indy\RPMS
>
>Just create a Symlink RedHat -> Indy (well if you are on a windows
>partition you are hosed) just in case I overlooked something when
>changing paths..

So if I rename the Directory from Indy to RedHat I will be fine. If I
burn a CD what kind of CD should I create in order for Linux to be
able to see the long file names? Rock Ridge Extensions? Does anyone
know a windows software that can do that?

And yes I am on a Windows box and I wish not to be hosed. SO how do I 
handle this?

>However here we have two cases:
>
>Indy 6.0 is finished.  There you have an install who will look for an Indy
>directory
>
>Indy 6.1 is uncomplete.  It still has a RedHat installer (looking
>under the RedHat directory ) who in addition has a RedHat filedatabase
>so in many cases it will fail to find the Indy file because the RedHat
>file is named myfile-3.i386.rpm while the Indy package is a
>myfile-5.i386.rpm due to being anewer version.  I can do a very quick
>and dirty build if you _really_ require it but you will only get the
>old Indy 6.0 installer.

How do I know what I have i.e. an installer looking for Indy or RedHat.
Is there a dos/windows tool to check for this?

Can I do the installation from a FAT32 partition? So far I have only done
CD installations and UMSDOS ones so be patient with me. What do I need to
watch out for?

>About Indy being easy to install I reiterate that IMHO this is far too
>overrated for marketing reasons (this is what the PC Magazine reporter
>will see).   What Indy aims is:
>
>1) Provide something useful and fun whatever user you are, not a
>distribution who is objevctively only a toy if you are not a corporate
>user or a nerd
>
>2) Provide for your constraints: how you learn, how you connect, who
>    are you.  Most distributions implicitly assume the system
>    administrator (you) has years of experience.

Let us not kid our selves. I do not have that kind of experience even
though I do not have a problem of devoting the time, patience and
energy to work on this.

>3) Make it easy to _use_ is higher on the list than easy to install:
>the easiest install is go to an installfest and have someone install
>Linux for you but what happens when you return home?

There are NO installfests where I live! So I have to rely solely on any
help I can get from the net and on my self.

So what do we do now. Or rather what can I do now? I have already burned
one CD and I have been unable to install Indy so I would like some
assistance in order to do the install.

So far I have been doing mostly installations of linux and I would like
to move on and start to actually do real work with it. Marketing wise
Indy sounds like it would do the job for me so that is why I am trying it.

Bottom line. I want to install Indy and start producing with the system.
I do not wish to spend my time just on installing new distributions every
so often.

Waiting for your comments, directions and ideas.

Thanks in advance.
Dinos Kouroushaklis