[Lancaster] Virtual box fedora install

[Wayne Ward]

ha ha ha  - cheeky :-O

im smiling :)

regards
Wayne

On 15 Oct 2009, at 18:10, Ken Hough wrote:

> Wayne,
>
> I'm sure that you realise that some of the comments in my previous  
> message
> were definitely "tongue in cheek"
>
>
> Ken hough
>
>
> On Thursday 15 October 2009 18:05:40 you wrote:
>> Hi ken i hope i am ready for rpm as i am rhce and rhct registered!!!
>> and been using red hat from day one!!!
>> commercially ive had clusters running and from a personal point of
>> view i preferred gentoo on the boxes!!
>> but when it comes to getting external support for the servers  
>> incase i
>> get hit by a bus they tend to ask for red hat servers
>> i know novell and ubuntu have support packages and are commercial all
>> the corporates i deal with and have dealt with in the past ten years
>> will only offer support on red hat.
>> When i have been doing the different installs id say out of the  
>> newbie
>> installs id go for ubuntu for a few simple reasons - the easiest
>> install - probably the most popular and easiest to get help on and  
>> its
>> probably got all the tools you need to configure it in the menus and
>> installs plugins and hardware drivers out of the box!!! plus it comes
>> on one cd!! one of the reasons i never tested suse is because ih has
>> three cd's or one dvd !! - i tested fedora because it was a one cd
>> distro but probably wouldnt waste another cd on it again!!
>>
>> on another side when you move onto the next level gentoo is quality i
>> love it i just feels great - arch came in second - zen ? mmm dont  
>> know
>> about this one! and on another level netbsd was easy install - fast
>> install - but need to learn how to administer it - I think ill just  
>> be
>> sticking to gentoo!!!
>>
>> the summary is ill be using ubuntu for friends customers and
>> recomondations to newbies - serves it a toss up between debian and
>> ubuntu im going to to test both next week and see whats gong to be
>> best for this i might even try red hat server!!!
>> for me for my own linux boxes im going to use gentoo - im just going
>> to build one thats going to run full time in a virtual box on my
>> server that link checks all my sites and emails me bad links on my
>> sites and also use it as a nagios that monitors all my web services
>> and servers - ill get this to text me when something drops off  
>> line!!!
>> - nice project ive set quite a few of these up
>>
>> ps check me next email folks.... (after ive had a brew!)
>>
>> wayne
>>
>> On 15 Oct 2009, at 17:15, Ken Hough wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 14 October 2009 20:39:50 Wayne Ward wrote:
>>>> Just tested a fedora install on a virtual box - it never saw the
>>>> drive
>>>> saw changed the chipset type from PIIX4 to PIIX3 and its working
>>>> must admit its very much the same as ubuntu from the outside
>>>
>>> Appearances Gnome and KDE aren't going to differ too much between
>>> distros.
>>>
>>>> going to
>>>> look at administration tools on the system and then have a look at
>>>> dare i say it RPM ....
>>>
>>> Come on! Be brave!  :-)
>>>
>>> Seriously, RPM can be approached either via the basic 'rpm' tool, or
>>> via a
>>> decent installation manager like (present day) Yast. In the former
>>> case,
>>> dependencies are flagged up but not installed. In the later case,
>>> just like
>>> under the Ububtu/Debian managers, all should be automatically
>>> attended to.
>>>
>>> and for those who do not wish to use a GUI manager, Yast can run
>>> under a
>>> terminal screen via ncurses.
>>>
>>> Red Hat and SUSE are both well respected at the corporate level, so
>>> RPM can't
>>> be too bad.  ;-)
>>>
>>>> 6/10 for a install to many questions and giving a root password
>>>> havent
>>>> done that for a while!!.. the boot screen just put me off full  
>>>> style
>>>> ive kept the iso incase anyone wants to see the install
>>>
>>> I have Fedora 10, Debian 5, Ubuntu 9, and other distros and OSes
>>> installed
>>> under Virtual Box. I'm now reasonably comfortable with using
>>> (playing with?)
>>> all of these distros, but I have yet to see any good reason to move
>>> away from
>>> my present base system of openSUSE 11.1.
>>>
>>> To some extent it comes down to what one is used to. Let's face it,
>>> all of
>>> the main stream distros are pretty damn good these days.
>>>
>>> I recommend that newbies DO NOT set about TRYING OUT various
>>> distros. They are
>>> different and more or less guaranteed to confuse. Choose a distro
>>> according
>>> to what you think is needed and at least to begin with, STICK WITH  
>>> IT!
>>>
>>> Wayne, I'm not suggesting that you are a newbie. Perhaps you might
>>> be ready
>>> for RPM.   ;-)  ;-)  ;-)
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>>
>>> Ken Hough
>>>
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>>
>> Regards,
>> Wayne ward
>>
>> 07957448652
>> Lancaster Computers
>>
>> www.lancastercomputers.co.uk
>> wayne at lancastercomputers.co.uk
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Regards,
Wayne ward

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