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Good point

Good point

Posted Nov 20, 2003 14:49 UTC (Thu) by tsinclai (subscriber, #11399)
In reply to: Suse 9: A first look from a long time RHL user by einstein
Parent article: Review: SuSE Linux 9 (NewsForge)

I teach UNIX system administration at a small technical college.  Since the textbook (Guide to Linux Installation and Administration) is based on Red Hat (7.3 in fact), that's how I have to teach the class.

So far, so good.  I give out copies of RH 8 to my students on the first day of class (I experimented with RH 9 one term and found too many bugs when compiling certain packages) and we're off to the races.

This term, however, several of my students have those little USB pen drives and are trying to use them with their Linux desktops.  Red Hat recognizes the drives at boot-up but does not automatically mount them.  So far I've been explaining that Red Hat is fine for servers but that they're not aiming at the desktop market and that Suse (I give up) or Mandrake should work fine.

Anyone have a link to a good discussion of using those USB drives on Red Hat?  I've googled around and haven't found much.


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