/ phred / wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions so far! > A couple clarifications: > I was thinking of running Ubuntu or Knoppix. > I want to run Fuqid & frost on the remote windows machine(s). > (does that make it alot harder) > > I've messed around with linux a few times over the last dozen or so > years, but have always gone back to the dark side... Installation of > software - applications & drivers - can be a real pain, Windows almost > always just works. I consider myself a fairly advanced windows user (as > would the people who call me for tech support), but linux often makes me > feel clueless. I've played around recently with some of the "live" > distros, which seem pretty decent, but I haven't had to install anything > in extra in them yet. So hopefully, the stuff needed to make freenet > work won't lead me down the highway to dependency hell... > > You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The > trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck.
The best way with gnu/linux (or anything computery, as you know) is to just do it... you'll start to figure stuff out only then. Couple of problems that i am aware of, that you'll need to avoid: Right away turn off "Direct disk access" in fuqid, if you are running it on the machine that isn't where your node is (or even if you run it under wine). Frost can sometimes have trouble being installed on the external machine. Install it on your node machine, run once, and then move to the machine of your choice (just move the directory over). I've not tried this set up myself, but am planning to move the fuqid to another machine from the node. Let me know if there are any other problems... we can try to work it out together. -- Hi! I am a .SIG virus! Copy me to your SIG so that I can spread! http://freedom.libsyn.com/ Voice of Freedom, Radical Podcast http://www.whengendarmesleeps.org/ When Gendarme Sleeps, Anarchy's Zine of Poetry ======================== "None of us are free until all of us are free." ~ Mihail Bakunin
