Day Brown wrote:
>
> > Four distros plus suse, slack and another. That's seven
> > distros and you still haven't tried BasicLinux. :-(
>
> They all come on a CD and a complete idiot like me
> is given the impression that all he hasta do is turn
> on the computer and boot from the cd rom.
Instead of buying a CDrom, you can download baslin16.zip for free!
(Only 2mb in size.) Then (in DOS) do these two things:
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unzip baslin16 [ENTER]
boot {ENTER}
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Voila. You are in Linux. (You can tell because your computer
is giving you that dreaded login prompt.)
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root [ENTER]
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I gave instructions previously on how to remove the login
prompt. Let me know if you want them again.
> As for crashed caused by Netscape or whatever, I didnt
> see any mention of that possiblility in the indexes of
> the Linux manuals I have. Newbies are given the idea
> that the reason they should change to Linux is that it
> does not crash.
As I said in my last message, when Netscape crashes, Linux
does not crash. Netscape is just a program. Badly written
programs crash. Don't blame Linux for this. The nice thing
about Linux is that when a buggy program crashes, you simply
kill that process. The other processes continue. For example
when Netscape crashes, I press CTRL-ALT-F4, kill netscape, and
then press CTRL-ALT-F5 to get me back to X. X is still running,
icewm is still running, xterm is still running and nedit is
still running. I click the icewm menu and restart netscape.
In total, it took 30 seconds to put everything back the way
it was before netscape went loopy.
Cheers,
Steven
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