On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 20:12 +1300, rob wrote: > Hi Nick, > Yes I understand your thinking but there are good reasons behind all > this. Whilst it's true that I don't have lots of cash around at present > I did have a 486, a bit of spare time and a desire to get to grips with > Linux. The distro was carefully selected as one which would run on the > hardware and did not have an automatically configured window manager and > GUI. Therefore I have had to configure it from scratch and hopefully get > on to a useful learning curve, which has certainly been achieved. > > When I have this box up and running, connected to my home LAN and I can > e-mail the group and print off the replies, then its purpose will have > been served and I will certainly feel a sense of achievement. > > I do have Ubuntu dual booting on my laptop. It installed smoothly, found > my router, got on the Internet effortlessly, found my printer and > automatically mounts a USB floppy and flash drive. I must say that I am > impressed but haven't learned much from it. > > I hope this helps to explain my strange choices. > > Cheers - Woodsey
OK, I had thought that your 486 was the first attempt at linux, in which case the learning curve may have been too steep. I hope you are acheiving your aims. what version of X are you trying to install? -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
