RE: Partitioning.
I'm slapping at least six partitions on the next drive.


-> ->> DamnSmallLinux tried to move in that direction but was not
-> ->> as advanced as KNOPPIX in auto detection technigues and
-> ->> didn't look as professional as KNOPPIX looks. KNOPPIX is
-> ->> just darn 'pretty' sitting there and knowing that 2 gigs of
-> ->> software is sitting there compressed on that CD is just
-> ->> _stunning_ to a guy like me. I fit W31 onto a floppy but
-> ->> KNOPPIX is just remarkable in my book. :-) 

-> WC> Same here. I like the "Platinum" style KDE desktop.
-> WC> Everything here autodetects just fine but I replaced the
-> WC> software sound card. 

-> Windmodems, sound on the mb, even video on the mb with shared
-> memory are all proprietary and as-such would give any OS that
-> is _not_ Windows fits. 
   
My onboard video is an ATI Mach 64 clone with shared memory, 
no problems :-)

-> A generic copy of Windows would have the
-> same problems until manuf drivers were downloaded and installed. 

I was already all but fedup with that OS until the straw broke the 
camels back.

-> ->>>> I realize that KNOPPIX didn't configure your modem for
-> ->>>> you and you said it wouldn't print on your printer. 

-> WC>>> Go to the GUI "console" under settings and set it up.
-> WC>>> Same with modem and sound card. 

-> ->> My only suggestion for making any Linux GUI more 'user
-> ->> friendly' would be to have an alternate GUI using Windows
-> ->> terminology (control panel, etc.) to make the transition
-> ->> less stressful for a week or two or three for Windows
-> ->> users. I don't think it would detract from Linux if it
-> ->> could 'masquerade' as Windows for awhile. 

-> WC> A bit less educational though. The existing GUI root
-> WC> _control panel_ is pretty close to Windows just uses less
-> WC> precise Linux commands than required at the command line. 

-> I'm only referring to some text (terminology) and a few cutesy
-> little graphics (icons) that could be switched on/off between
-> the Windows and the Linux versions. Not unlike Windows XP have
-> the "classic" (W98SE-like) switched on/off for displays. 

As long as you could switch it OFF!!!            

-> WC> I don't think a standard Linux command line has "locate" as
-> WC> a recursive search but I bet it's an alias for an option of
-> WC> "ls" I've already found locate to be useful. 

-> I had created alias for my DOS machines years ago using CED and
-> began creating them for my mini-Linux installs as well. :-)   

Advisable for some of the more powerful commands when logged on
as root.
Mistakes do happen.

-> WC>>> As root create adduser "whomever" and allow that user
-> WC>>> account access to modem, printer and sound card. 

-> ->>>> These are possible areas that could use some attention
-> ->>>> but I suspect that with just a bit of typing on your part
-> ->>>> the modem and printer would be functioning. 

-> WC>>> I asked a question in a Linux echo having already
-> WC>>> installed to a hard drive and had the printer and modem
-> WC>>> setup in seconds. 

-> WC>>> I retain two pages of trivially simple commands to setup
-> WC>>> here. 

-> ->> My daughter dropped to DOS on a machine at work to move
-> ->> some files and the people at work panicked and asked her
-> ->> what "that" was. They had never seen the DOS command line
-> ->> before. :-) 

-> WC> The office computer geek eh ;-) 

-> Yes, _all_ of my children have had similar experiences. I kept
-> my computers in the living room (not hidden) since before the
-> internet was available to the general public and have _always_
-> been online even before Compuserve was a big deal.

I went online in 1994.
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