>You can install quite a few of of the > Linux distributions either directly from a hard-drive, or over a local > network. Mandrake for example. Some can be installed directly off the > Internet. Debian comes to mind here.
Actually a while back I managed a minimal install of Debian off the web by downloading some files into windows and using rawrite, but I ran into problems and then got the discs. I 've just tried to install it again and now remember why I gave up on it the first time :) I wont bore you with the details. I do have Redhat 7.0 running on an old Pentium and think that at this stage on the learning curve I should stick to the one machine I have had the most success with. There are a number of things I have to sort out on it but first I would like to get it to recognise my ethernet card then I will try to set up a SAMBA connection to my MSWindows machine. At present it does not recognise my ethernet card. The card is a KTX-5200PXA Realtek RTL 8029AS. In Linuxconf - Basic Host Info - Adaptor the kernel module is set to ne2k-pci. Net device is set to eth0. During bootup eth0 installation fails. Could someone please tell me what I need to look at to sort this out. Bill
