in fact a volunteer at the WSF helped me run the cd at the WSF media centre. but the media centre had a network connection. at home its dial up.
in fact the volunteer himself told me firebird is buggy and asked me to run mozilla instead. as for getting engineers, i found a guy who can do it. i have postponed installation of linux for the moment 'cos i am buying a new computer. i had earlier asked a couple of engineers who said they don't installed linux. not even if the cd was given to them. i can't risk doing it on my own cos i cannot afford to keep the computer down for long due to work considerations. sk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Xterm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: February 01, 2004 10:35 PM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] RE: introducing myself > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shiv Kumaar,91-22-28906693, 9820320927 (mobile)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > but a free distro by partecs www.partecs.com was troublesome. the live CD > > booted nicely, but there was no way i could connect to the net using the > > live cd. clicked on Internet>PPPsomething which detected the ethernet card > > but didn't connect to the net. i got the msg:pppdaemon died unexpectedly. > > The Partecs Live Demo CD was a working one... It was actually Debian Morphix > from the inside... and it could connect to the net easily from the CD > itself... I > myself was the volunteer incharge at the media centre at WSF... I dont > remember you approached any volunteer for help. Our dhcp server was up and > running... all u had to do is run "netcardconfig" and that's it... you could > have insisted volunteers to make the CD work for you... plus mozilla > firebird was bundled on the CD. So there should not have been any problem? > Try it at ur home... I'm very much sure internet will work... > > > as for installing linux, the garden variety of engineers who maintain > > machines, install pirated sofware, etc in > > Well, the buyers of new computers should be educated first... Most of the > times it happens that the buyers say, "I WANT ALL THE SOFTWARES"... i've > paid you 35000 Rs... and i want everything... what can the poor gardener > engineers do? > > Hey where is ur garden, maybe I can come there... what do you say? > > rgds, > > > > -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
