On Wednesday 09 August 2006 19:44, Alan wrote: > Rick > When I was at Chch Tech we had a Teacher there Bill Hughes, > also you say your Grandfather was a Telegraph Tech, was he in Chch?? I > started in Chch (1950... wow that ages me) but also spent time in > Hamilton and Dunedin. > Now I would like to think about making a start and would like to try > both the Ubuntu and Suse, altho the friend in the States who sent me the > disks also sed that he thought Mepis was a good one. It's probably best to use the distribution with which your helper is most familiar. There are list members who have skills for all the 3 you mention.
> What do I need to do to get a copy of these please?? Be prepared to collect the CD from whoever. > Replace the CD'sor DVD's ?? That's the custom, except that the CLUG itself still has a number of factory copies of Ubuntu and KUbuntu disks to give away. > should they be CDR's or CDRW's?? It does not matter. Same has what you are given. > I have Fragmented the HDD although after several runs it still leaves a > small block apart from the main block but hopefully that wont be a > problem. It all depends if there is sufficient space between that small immovable block and the end of the drive to fit in all the Linux partitions. -- CS
