Thanks Robert. Anthony
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Citek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Central West End Linux Users Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [cwe-lug] CWE-LUG meeting this Sunday
On Wednesday, Dec 15, 2004, at 13:57 US/Central, Anthony Lordi wrote:Robert. Just gave a Linux presentation to a Windows group in hopes of getting older users to try Linux. I learned that most were afraid of jeopardizing their windows computer and some had another computer to try Linux. I again paraded Knoppix and Open CD and passed out remaining copies.
Excellent. Which Windows group?
CORCC Hazelwood 12/10/04
Learned that group wanted an actual demonstration of an install on a hard drive, and I agreed to present one. Got the volunteer of a laptop to try it. I am to pick up the laptop this weekend and know little about it. My laptop has had Libranet 1.7 and Xandros 2.0 with code weavers now installed, (both with some install problems with the display) for answering questions. I want to use the borrowed laptop to install a free(floss) with hopefully the 2.6 kernel and Firefox browser. Was thinking FC3. What do you think of a trial run Sunday to see if there is a problem with the test laptop.
Sounds great. Sure, bring the laptop. We'll give it a whirl. I don't know if FC3 comes with FireFox, but you can definitely apt-get it or use synaptic. Other distros to consider for the laptop: SuSE or Mandrake or the new Xandros 3.0. Unfortunately, I'm not as familiar with those distros. Others care to comment?
Anthony.p.s. Have not been able to successfully install any FC on my home P1 166, with 64MB. RH 6.2 goes on fine.
I was able to install FC1 on a P133 with 64 MB RAM using two floppies and a net connection:
http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?FedoraCore1#floppy_install
It is a bit slow at the console, but works fine and is fast enough for a simple webserver or mail server. What issues were/are you having?
Mostly, install just stopped. Had monitor and video card recognition problems, and no mouse to help install. Even ran diagnostics successfully on FC CDs prior to attempts.
Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent
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