Subject: RE: B50 won't recognize CD as a Yellowdog install CD
From: Stefan Schneider (stefan.schneider@comsat.com.ve)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 10:29:25 MDT
I can answer that question for him :)
I purchased my B50's with AIX (I'm no AIX nor Linux neophyte IMHO :) but
there is one thing that AIX can't do and which I need for transparent
proxying which is packet redirection using the AIX IPFilter package (Not
related to *BSD IPF package). Linux can do it through ipchains and thus is a
better choice for that application.
Besides... I find Linux a better choice than AIX for ISP's (not a religious
issue here but because Linux has more functionality) and altough I've
managed to port and compile several packages like PostgreSQL or Squid for
AIX you can't deny that since most of them have been developed with Linux in
mind they will run better on it.
Besides.. the power of a PPC processor+the unholy goodiness of Linux=one
happy guy :)
Hope this helps
S/Sch
----- Original Message -----
From: Myles Vrednburg <myles@nycap.rr.com>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: B50 won't recognize CD as a Yellowdog install CD
> "Vanco, Donald" wrote:
> >
> > Well - I was finally able to install 1.2 (I did have a 1.2 CD, albeit
> > corrupt somewhere in the install tree).
> >
> > All I had to do was:
> > Install 1.1
> > Copy the CD to an empty partition (well, the YellowDog directory at
least)
> > Create a symbolic link from YellowDog to RedHat (the install looks for
both
> > - HELLO??? Perhaps this is the source of the CD's failure to install)
> > Run the install for 1.2, pointing it to the above files
> >
> > I'm now dealing with getting the B50 to boot from the HD (I am an
RS/6000
> > neophyte). Between the worthless instruction in the <ahem> manual and
some
> > kludged instruction I got from this list a long time ago I suppose I'll
get
> > home by midnight EST.
> >
> > Piece of cake! Can't wait to turn these instructions over to our
> > integration facility and tell them to load a hundred of these!
> >
> > Don
> >
>
> Purely out of curiosity, why choose Linux over AIX? Were these machines
> purchased without AIX installed?
>
> -Myles
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