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Dan Mueller wrote:
> 
> Re; eeepc’s command lines info.
> Thanx for the info regarding the command lines. I would love to come to
> one of the meetings but cannot make it to this one. When would the next
> one be that I can plan for??
> 
First Wednesday of every month.

>  There are two ways that I can muck around. I can install a small os on
> a 4 gig hdd on my desktop is choice #2  afew distro’s that I have to
> work with are DSL in various versions, puppy, eeepuppy, breezy puppy or 
> a puppy version I like is teen puppy. Also have slitaz, bonsai, mepis
> and kubuntu 8.04.
> 
That old of harddrive is prone to failure.  Plus the performance is
going to suck.  You can still hook up the eeePC to an external
monitor/keyboard/mouse to get more of a familiar feel.

Once things are up and running you could just remotely access the eeePC
(ssh and screen are two of my best friends).

>  However… in all of that a goal I want to work towards is getting
> contact onto my 2 gig eee pc. The only way I figure that I can do that
> is to format my 2 gig sd card, mount it, move my home file onto it
> freeing up some space and than im not sure if I would install the
> contact program onto the computer memory or onto the sd card. This would

There are a couple of ways of going about this.

> be a real world usable goal of mine. Because I really like teen puppy
> and it has a lot of programs already with it including contact….. I

Do you mean kontact, the KDE PIM/Email/contact program?

> could also install it on the 2 gig machine. The only thing would be to
> get the wired and wireless working. So as you all can see… there are

The wired networking works out of the box.  The wireless takes about 5
minutes to get going.  We can help you with that once you get that far.

> many options I just need to learn this stuff myself than I can do what
> ever I want. If someone out there can help me with this it would be
> great!!  If too much to respond on the clug than you could also e-mail
> me at tubeguy2 at nucleus.com
> 
There is a tech orientated mailing list that CLUG provides for just
these sorts of questions.  Signup is at the same place as this list
(http://clug.ca/resources).

Hth,
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