-=> TOM WALKER wrote to ROY J. TELLASON <=-

 ->  TW> I highly doubt that. I took a fling at KNOPPIX becasue so many were
 ->  TW> Raving about it .                                            Well
 ->  TW> while it has excellent Hardware support it is still NOT ready for
 ->  TW> the Big Time.

 -> I guess it didn't meet your expectations,  then?  If that's the case,  what
 TW> was
 -> it that you expected from it and didn't get?

 TW>  I was thinking of a quick and dirty machine for someone that only
 TW> needed the Internet.
 TW> Well I could NOT get it to connect. Even though it went through the
 TW> "Connection Wizzard" Perfectly.

I did NOT use the Connection Wizard but chose the dialog box
alternative within Connection Wizard.
Chose a name for your connection, mine's Verizon.
You need to specify COM 1 as /dev/ttyS0, COM 2 /dev/ttyS1, ect,
select negotiation protocol, PAP or CHAP.
CHAP is what my ISP requires.
Suuply the phone number when prompted.
After this I ran the the included modem diagnostic, it ran.
I supplied user name and password and it ran :-)
Logged on and awa she went :-)

 TW> If that step had have worked I was thinking of putting the Knoppis CD o
 TW> nthe Hard Drive and running ofrm there. BUT a Frined of mine trying the
 TW> same thoing had tried Three different sets of Instructions for the Hard
 TW> Drive Install and NONE of them Work!!
 TW> He was working with Knoppix 3.2 and I am working with 3.3

I've run my hard drive installation TWICE after deciding I needed to
resize the Linux partitions, no problems.
I used the knx-hdinstall script from the root command line.

Only thing stopping me from full committment right now
is setting up my offline reader and ztelnet application.
I'm about halfway there but I tire easily these days and
haven't gotten back to it in a while.
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