Hi, Just a thought local user groups quite often help and support new users (Hampshire lug) has helped me before!
Not sure if there is one in Derbyshire but worth a Google (or alternative search engine) Pete S On 23 Jul 2016 13:11, "alan c" <aecl...@candt.waitrose.com> wrote: > Sorry I can't help in person, however, just a reminder that under many > circumstances, the program Teamviewer is free of charge for amateur, > non business use. I have used it for remote friends, on one occasion > a friend had moved to France for some years. > > It works well, if sometimes slow on the link. > > In an extreme case: > If the remote novice had a completely separate spare machine, which > could be simply wiped etc with no worry of lack data backup etc and > loss of home internet (if an install somehow got screwed) then it is > even possible to do a fresh install by remote, via Teamviewer, caviat: > the remote friend would need to be calm accurate on keyboard, and have > good systematic use of the parallel phone conversation. Also at > (least) one key stage, a machine restart etc is needed, also the > install disk is best used at the remote location etc. With one very > systematic remote friend I have actually done this, it worked. However > some friends are nervous and may find difficulty in following an > instruction confidently. > > Good luck > > On 15/07/16 17:26, Barry Titterton wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Is there anyone who lives near mid-Derbyshire and could spare an evening > > to help a brand new user do their first install? The user in question is > > an old friend on mine who has a Vista laptop that he wants to convert to > > Linux. He has limited technical skill so would benefit from someone > > walking him through his first install. I am not able to help him as I > > now live in County Durham which makes it quite a long round trip. > > Please PM me if you may be able to help and I will give you more details. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Barry T > > > > -- > alan cocks > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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