On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 05:01, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Friday 01 October 2004 23:06, Merlin Zener wrote: > > - wish me luck! > > You don't need luck, you've got Linux...you need a clear head and a slow mouse > hand. > Read everything carefully and check the options before you click <next> and > you'll be fine:)
Hi all, well I did it!!! :) it was almost painless - not exactly as smooth as it could have been, but the important thing is it boots and connects etc, the rest I fix up as I go... The first thing was the CD wouldn't boot, so I made a boot floppy and it would only get half way through before crashing, so I burnt a CD from the boot.iso image and that one worked. It detected everything except my modem, I had to go in and tell it where it was connected. And then [after I found my login and password details for my ISP] it wouldn't browse or get email. I had to go back and reset the static address for my LAN to get that working again. Weird, isn't it - I'm still scratching my head over that one. What's the lan got to do with the modem??? Oh, and I had to go back and reinstall Mozilla and Evolution from the CDs - and delete and re-create the desktop shortcuts: the old ones didn't work. Mozilla loads flash pages "out of the box", but no java. I'll have to look into that later... All in all, not too bad - the new fonts look better, I *think* it seems a little faster, most things are where I expect them. Considering how little I know about Linux/Mandrake, the fact that I managed to get it installed and connected speaks volumes for the progress Mandrake etc are making to the masses... Thanks again to all that helped and gave advice. :) -- Merlin Zener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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