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As I anxiously await the arrival of my Mandrake package, I decided to see what running Knoppix from a CD-ROM would be like, so last night I downloaded it and burned it to CD-R (should I have burned it to CD-RW instead?). In any event, everything seemed fine as I booted from the CD, and it didn't complain about not detecting any hardware. Everything *looked* normal (well, as normal as it could for something I've never seen before :-)). I found Kmail, and set up a test account. But then, I could neither receive nor send email. I looked around to see where I might have to set up my basic connection parameters, but became a little confused during that journey, and haven't yet found the solution. In thinking about all this, I do wonder how it's possible to run this, or any Linux distribution entirely from CD-R and have any sort of full functionality...perhaps especially in the realm of something like sending/receiving email, because doesn't that new data need to be written to *somewhere* on my hard drive? If my hard drive is formatted for Windows usage (NTFS, with Windows formatting), wouldn't this present problems? Just in case there *is* a way to go further with my Knoppix experiment... I still just have my USB connected Linksys cable modem (I'm looking into getting a regular ethernet card, as I've been told that Mandrake might not like the external USB modem). *If* I can get past the possible modem issue for the moment, can someone steer me in the right direction with regards to seeing if I can get the connection working? Or, if it's something other than just the basic connection, is there a setting in the email program itself that I need to be more aware of? Thanks! - -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]&Body=Please%20send%20keys -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE/tmtNjVbXUvsE8ukRAmOrAJ4kGESsUouzetb7y+NDY0CbfTvKOgCgjTMq d9IFOLYBpAJwho4j8K4ZTWw= =V+Xf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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