On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 13:05 +1300, John Rye wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:05:04 +1300 > Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I finally used the the "Other_OS" solution to my "Why won't it do what > I want" situation and made a clean start. > > I'm not entirely certain what I did differently during the install itself > the second time but I was able to access get access to the root account > and took the path of running wvdialconf first to locate the modem and then > started hunting about for every other ppp and network related file.
what do you want the root account for? the first created user can do all of root's tasks via sudo. what was wrong with the menu item for configuring the dialup network? perhaps you could tell us what actually went wrong the first time around? > > It wasn't too hit and miss but very messy for a start because I was > totally confused by the slighty but significantly different structure of > /etc in particular, especially in regard to networking. > different to what? > The one utility I really really missed during this part of the process was > mc (Midnight Commander) which I use as my CLI navigation tool on all my > other machines. > yes its great isn't it, its the forst thing i install on any distro if it is not already there! > The whole process took about two and a half hours to get to the point > where I could logon to my ISP and start hunting Google and the Ubuntu wiki > pages for the other bits and pieces I was "missing". > > Overall I do like what I see, however I don't think this is a distribution > I would recommend to a Newbie as a start point to the Linux world. Mostly > because it requires a pretty good understanding on how Linux works to get > something as basic as Dial-up Networking up and running. > > Thanks to all who pointed me in various and somethimes totally confusing > directions. > > Cheers > > John -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
