[Sussex] microsoft_anti-spyware

[Steve Williams]

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 13:41 +0100, Geoffrey J. Teale wrote:
> Stephen Williams <steve.williams at forteus.co.uk> writes:
> >
> > I'm downloading 0.7 ISO as we speak. I've got a spare box to try it on
> > that Ubuntu couldn't cope with - SCSI and HPT IDE-RAID controllers with
> > 1x SCSI and 4x IDE drives (gotta put 'em somewhere) - Ubuntu's default
> > grub install didn't hack it.
> >
> > I'm looking for a binary distro that isn't too big a learning curve from
> > Gentoo.
> 
> Cool.  Arch is a fairly natural step from Gentoo - it has many of the
> advantages (up-to date, simple flexible package management system,
> very clean, small minimum install) but without such a reliance on
> source based distribution.  As you'll find you can use src-pac or
> preferably ABS to customise and build things within the package
> management system when you really want/need to. 

Thanks for that. Not impressed so far - after selecting packages, the
install packages option whinges about "cannot resolve dependencies for
automake - mawk||perl||etc is not in the package list"

> 
> You'll need to use the SCSI kernel (you're given the
> option at install time) and the grub (or lilo) configuration is up to
> you entirely (there is a default, but it won't cope with your case).
> 



> If you have any problems you know where to come asking :-)  Although
> you should check out the forums and the wiki before coming here...
> 
> One thing to know from the outset.  You'll find that when you start or
> stop a daemon you don't do it like this:
> 
> /etc/init.d/cron start
> 
> Instead you do this:
> 
> /etc/rc.d/crond start
> 

I'm familiar with this from pre-gentoo days.

> .. not a major thing (people who've used a lot of UNIX systems won't
> be surprised by this), but worth noting.
>