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On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 00:44 +1300, Judy & Lindsay Roberts wrote:
> Unfortunately, I am going to have to stick with the Live CD version at
> present, as my wife isn't going to agree to installing a Linux partition
> on the HDD. It's Live CD or nothing for the time being, so that's where
> I'll need assistance Rob.
>
> Rob Wood wrote:
>
> > Hi Both,
> > I am a newbie myself struggling with various problems so I probably
> > can't help much but I will try. Mandrake in my experience is
> > reasonable to set up with a modem as long as you have an external
> > serial or USB modem and not internal PCI or ISA type (these
> > things depend on Windows), although it takes a bit of work. Printers
> > like Laserjet 4 and 5 are easily setup by Mandrake almost
> > automatically and I believe several modern printers provide Linux drivers.
> >
> > I tried Ubuntu just out of curiosity and it installed like a dream. It
> > also detected my USB floppy drive automatically and it detects and
> > writes to USB stick drives. It has an issue with my laptop hardware
> > but then so does Win XP, and that was e*XP*ensive.
> >
> > I found Ubuntu the easier of the two so if your hardware is fairly
> > standard, perhaps an installed version would do the job.
> >
> > I'm afraid that is about the extent of my ability to help but I'm
> > sure other members of the group will do much better.
> >
> > Good luck - Woodsey
> >
> >
> >
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