Vatsala, I have a function tonight at 7.00 pm and fininsh work at 5.00. If you want to bring your laptop into the office again I will try and sort your difficulty. Please let me know.
Also, several people have asked exactly what steps you took to install kde. Please let us know the answer! And bring a couple of blank cd's On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 23:33, eBhakta wrote: > Good evening! > > Just a note to say that if the CD-R/CD-RW thing was worked out, then > (as per usual) all personal files could be backed up, and then it would be a > "simple" matter just to reinstall the O/S... :| In the "other operating > system" (MSWindowsXP), there is (personally) a separate partition created > for personal files, and the O/S is on its own partition (so that if there's > any problems with it that get out of hand, it can be reinstalled, without > affecting the files). Can this be done with Linux? Of course it ALWAYS pays > to backup files... Definitely need to figure the CD-R/CD-RW burning thing > out, in Linux. If the files were backed up (esp. the ones Nick downloaded), > then it wouldn't be such an issue... The problem is that the modem stuff is > NOT backed up... And if the system is reinstalled then the file(s) are lost, > and no way to download them onto that partition. Yes, patience... Best to > keep it simple... ;) > > Regards (and good-night), > Bhaktavatsala Dasa (Vatsala) > > @ http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~vatsalaji - Hare Krishna! >
