Re: why do you guys shoot yourself in the foot?

[Christoph Plattner]

Hello !

In some points I can understand your problem. As I begin to sattle over 
from the Microsoft world to the GNU/Linux world, I also had the
problems.
There is much docu, but you do not find anything, you are not exercised 
in finding things you look for.

My luck was, that I have collegues and friends in the company and around
who give me help, and today I have learned to search information in more
than on UNIX derivate.

It is the same as in the WWW. In the beginning I had also difficulties
to
be able to do usable searches in the Alta-Vista or whereever.

The shocking point here is: It is a question of skills ! If you learn 
some things, you are able to follow all that stuff more or less. If you
have more know-how, you will follow up more,....

The problem often is that there is much documentation for details, but
beginners  (I don't mean you here, as you have experience over years)
often miss documentation explaining some overall documentations, global
view of the system, etc..

But with the upcomming Linux for everbody, here this will be improved.

In GRUB I also had this problem in the beginning. But the way is, to
take
much time to read the docu stuff (from beginning). Often the problem is
not to have a paper version (but you can print....). It helps really to
sit
on a convient place and read, not in front of the monitor, where every
"hacker"
will have progress ....


With friendly regards

        Chrisroph P.

Shawn McKenzie wrote:
> 
> This isn't a bug.
> 
> I've been using GNU/Linux for more than 5 years, and some GNU utilities
> more than that. thee system I am on now uses grub. This is the same
> problem I have had with gnu software for years.... tons of info on why
> it is superior, and tons of de4ep technical knowledge, bot noting
> usefull. How the fuck do I get grub to boot my new kernel?  Nothing
> says. I tried running lilo out of habit, and now I get my new option at
> boot... but not the new kernel. I've looked at the grub config file...
> 
> /boot/grub/menu.lst
> 
> OK now how do I add it. So the gnu project disses man pages and goes for
> info... why the hell don't you have a simple description on how to boot
> your new kernel?
> 
> I'm about to go back to red had 6.1 because I know it works. WTF? So
> grub is fancy. Doesn't mean a thing if I don't have a description of how
> to use it........
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