Distro-specific threads

[busa_blade]

Does anyone think that it would be a good idea to split the questions up based on distro? That might make it easier for folks to help. That always seems to be one of the first questions I have to ask. I know some things are universal, but this might be a good filter. Anyone else have thoughts on this?

[Silverz]

I think that would help BUT, don't most of the solutions that work for one distribution work for all? so wouldn't you in effect be re-writing the answers again and again?

[z0mbix]

Originally posted by Silverz
I think that would help BUT, don't most of the solutions that work for one distribution work for all? so wouldn't you in effect be re-writing the answers again and again?

I disagree. I just think it would easier if posters were reminded that they should post all the relevant details in the first post. For example, RedHat, Debian, Slackware, Crux, Arch, Gentoo all have completely different ways and config files to setup networking. These distro's all come with different default kernels and different packages installed by default so it can give alot of info away by just posting the distro and version.

Also, SuSE, RedHat, Debian and Slackware all have different default runlevels, so when someone posts "How do I boot to a GUI login?" the answer can be given immediately, saving everyone time.

:)

[Silverz]

I think the problem is that us newbies don't have a clue what we're doing) I know I don't. So why not set-up an example when you select a new thread telling newbies to give whatever information is needed?

[z0mbix]

How about when people sign-up they are given a link to a script to run to get the relevant information. Something like:

#!/bin/sh

OS=`uname -s`
version=`uname -r`
kernel=`uname -v`
arch=`uname -m`
cpu=`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name" | cut -d: -f2 | sed s/" "/""/`
memory=`cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem: | awk '{print $2}'`
swap=`cat /proc/meminfo | grep Swap: | awk '{print $2}'`

echo -n "What distro and version do you use (e.g. RedHat 8.0): "
read distro
echo
echo "Distro:" $distro
echo "OS:" $OS
echo "Version:" $version
echo "Kernel:" $kernel
echo "Architecture:" $arch
echo "CPU:" $cpu
echo "Memory:" $memory
echo "Swap:" $swap

# End


giving the result:

What distro and version do you use (e.g. RedHat 8.0): Debian 3.0

Distro: Debian 3.0
OS: Linux
Version: 2.4.19
Kernel: #3 Thu Aug 22 23:20:39 GMT 2002
Architecture: i686
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Memory: 527994880
Swap: 509956096

[mdwatts]

How about posting this in the forum suggestion forum so the administrators can ponder over the idea?

Moving...

[z0mbix]

Originally posted by mdwatts
How about posting this in the forum suggestion forum so the administrators can ponder over the idea?

Moving...

Thks :D