jim allAn wrote: > It seems this might work IF I had a working modem IN linux, which > I ain't. > I had better just wait until the disks get here before I go crazy. > I entered all the info as correctly as I could figure out, but > step 3 stymied me. How could I do that unless I was in linux where > it couldn't work because of no modem in linux. > I hate to keep picking your brain and getting nowhere. I wish > there was a club meeting in my area where I could just go and see it > done or something. I may end up just giving up on linux entirely. > It is so depressing to try and try with no success.
Jim, question and suggestion. IMPORTANT: Read this through BEFORE you do anything I think you said you were dualbooting between Windows and Linux, so try this: Go back to the easyurmpi site via Windows. Once you have got steps one and two complete, you will have the data needed for step three. >From Windows open a text editor (Notepad, Wordpad etc - but NOT a wordprocessor). Use whichever method windows uses to copy text from a website (possibly highlight the text and hit ctrl-c) Now paste it into the text editor. Save the textfile to a filename easily recognised in a place on the windows file system which you know you can see from Linux (the root directory sounds good) Now reboot to Linux As root look for the file on the windows partition and copy to the linux machine. Then you can open the file and paste the content into a root terminal to set up your sources. But because you don't have a working modem that's about as far as you can get at this point. So, as you comment above, you're kinda stymied til the cds arrive. However the method I've described above shouldwork(tm) for any situation where you cannot access the net from Linux. Cheers John ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
