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Hello Wayne - 

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WC>>>>> I just entered administration mode, selected my printer
WC>>>>> ( which was listed) and off I went. 

->>>> Suggest this to Tom. Maybe he didn't know about this? 

WC>>> Once he get online with the modem then he'll be hooked.
WC>>> Then I'll give him some tips setting up a user account
WC>>> for security's sake. 

->> It would be nice to see Tom get KNOPPIX to work for him. :-) 

WC> Indeed it would. I'm convinced he'd be sold on it. 

WC> I'd have to look and see how I setup my printer again but
WC> it was dirt simple from the GUI in administration. 

WC> I'm pretty sure it's just assigning the COM port that's
WC> holding him up on the modem. 

I think so too. 

WC> I being skittish originally spend two days in ramdrive mode
WC> playing around before commiting to the hard drive
WC> installation. 

WC> I'm not exactly at the top of my game these days either but
WC> it was no big project. 

Well ... I was doing well when installing a 'mini-Linux'
install on one of my machines and decided to save some
configuration info to a floppy. This is from a command line
(CLI) only Linux install. 

I opened the floppy, wrote the files and read them back again.
Everything looked good. I rebooted the machine and found the
floppy was unreadable, totally scrambled. I had forgotten to
_close_ the floppy access before quitting Linux. 

That experience has made me 'edgey' when accessing my working
W2K hard drive setup from _any_ version of Linux. :-) 

I have a 233mhz machine not being used at present that I want
to use for Linux _only_ and avoid the threat that anything
might scramble the hard drive on me. :-)

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