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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Got an old 6GB 2.5 inch hdd if it'll help?
Cheers,
Steve
