Hello Wayne -

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 CA> btw: How are you getting along with your live Linux CD lately?

 WC> It valued, resides near at hand however unfortunately the
 WC> Pentium is currently down so I'm on a DOS - Win 3.1 1993 486
 WC> :-(

 CA> There are worse places to be.  I still have my W31 box and find it
 CA> quite pleasant to use many times.

 WC>  I'd be a LOT happier if I had more RAM in it.
 WC>  This is the motherboard I found in the trash with high
 WC> speed UARTS
 WC>  so I swapped them out.

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 WC>  I've grown attached to the bugger but would be more
 WC> attached if it had
 WC>  more RAM

Understood.

 WC> The hard drive's boot sector failed and the drive is no
 WC> longer recognised.

 CA> I can't get KNOPPIX to work on this laptop - I tried though. :-)

 WC> That's too bad. Have you tried a later release if your
 WC> laptop is cutting edge hardware?

Later releases of KNOPPIX have had problems (don't recall what though)
and the main problem with the laptop is that so much is included on
the motherboard (nonstandard). :-\

 WC> Oh yeah the PCI I/O card will also upgrade me from
 WC> ATA66 to UltraATA133 as well.
 WC> CompUSA has a Maxtor 20 Gig drive in stock locally and I
 WC> could install it without the new card but not gain the data
 WC> transfer speed advantage.

 WC> Once I install those parts I believe I'll leave the Windows
 WC> O.S. entirely.

 CA> I need too many of the applications for Windows to ever abandon it
 CA> entirely.

 WC>  I _may_ give 98 6.4 Gig out of a large hard drive and dual
 WC> boot.

I have a FAT32 partition with DOS as my security blanket (and can
dual boot).

 WC>  It's just that I find Windows so insecure, difficult
 WC>  to secure and a general PITA as compared to the Knoppix
 WC> Linux
 WC>  CD you sent along to me.

W2K is good for my uses now that I've tweaked it a bit.

 WC>  BTW thanks again muchly.

You're very welcome.

 WC>  I REALLY like the KDE desktop (platinum option)
 WC>  in 1024 x 768 resolution.

 WC>  Think I got those numbers right.

The people I've showed KNOPPIX to are impressed.  Many do not realize
how similar it is to Windows until they see it boot up. :-)


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