Adrian Sevcenco wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am new to SL and a have some problems...
> First annoying thing was when at install when without choosing mail 
> servers and samba servers at all i ended up with them installed.
If you choose the "Server" install, then yes, you end up with a certain 
amount of servers.  The list of which servers are installed, and which 
are not is the same as came from RedHat.  We did not change that. 
During the install, in the 'customize' packages, you need to scroll down 
  to the 'server' section and select which servers you do and don't want 
installed.
> Second was that despite the fact that cd’s passed integrity checks at 
> add/remove packages I received error no matter what I tried. Fortunately 
> I could just rpm -ivh.

I am assuming that you are using RedHat's 'Install Packages' program.  I 
thought we took that out, I'm quite sure we don't install it by default. 
  It just plain doesn't work.
If you have a network, use yum or apt, if you don't ... rpm -ivh is the 
best.

> Third: its not clear at install time what method is preferred: apt or 
> yum. From what I seen in howto’s it seem that yum is preferred. Maybe a 
> small comment in description to say that yum is preferred would be nice 
> (?? would be??)

We (Scientific Linux) officially don't have a preference, except of the 
x86_64 platform.  Both apt and yum can be installed with no ill effects.
I personally prefer yum, and since I write the vast majority of the 
documentation, I write it for yum.  Documentation is accepted for apt. 
But I'm not going to write it since I don't know it.

> Forth: using the generic 'us' keyboard i have a lot of problems in 
> pressing ' and " (and another keys)

Do you have a generic US keyboard?  run
   redhat-config-keyboard
to change it to what you have.

> Fifth : from a terminal in a graphical mode (kde ) find ./ -name '*'
> returns nothing. ina terminal in text mode i receive corect output

I hate to say 'it works for me', but it does.  It's possible that it's 
something with the keyboard in the previous problem.

> Sixth : mc (midnight commander) is not part of SL ?? is it another 
> aplication similar around ??

I've never used it ... so I'll let others answer that.

> For now thats all .. :))
> Thank you
> Adrian Sevcenco

Troy
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