-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-


 WC> So far haven't been patient enough and have CNTRL - C'd out of this
 WC> situation.

 RJT> I too prefer software that lets you know what the heck is going on.
 RJT> :-)

 WC> No need now. I think it may have been a syntax error in my editing
 WC> the pppsetup files.

 RJT> Ah.

Hey I'm not really sure but it's likely.
I'm used to deleting the quotes in pppsetup but don't know if
the square brackets in Greycat need to go or stay.

 WC> Charles Angelich Burned a Knoppix CD for me and sent it to here :-)
 WC> Arrived today :-)

 WC> Interrupted the boot to boot off the CD drive and KDE launched
 WC> right off the bat.

 RJT> I hear that's pretty good at autodetecting hardware.

Ya think? It autodetected my ATI card and setup
three resolutions right off the bat :-)
I now, boot: knoppix lang=us screen=768x1024 and I'm good to go!

 WC> I've got Star Office and all sorts of goodies here now :-) Lots
 WC> and lots of reading ahead though and I want to move it to the hard
 WC> drive as soon as possible.

 WC> I need to defrag and add a swap partition to my existing Linux
 WC> native partition. Heck with 256 Meg of RAM I'm in clover :-)

 RJT> That sounds pretty good to me!

Are you kidding?
I've got less than 2 hours total time on Knoppix
and I've already been surfing on Konqueror and Netscape
and I noted Dillo is in there as well :-)
Telneted as well.

Roy you need to see this to believe it and I hope you soon
get your Celeron box up and running and
snag a copy of Knoppix.

The Windows like KDE GUI is far clearer than Win 98
on the same box and monitor.

Now I've got to look into increasing the partition size for Knoppix
to half the drive and loading from the hard drive instead of the CD.

Then I'll see about snagging Abiword and likely my next hard drive
won't even have Windows on it in any way, shape or form.

If enough people become aware of how user friendly this release is
Bill Gates is in deep dodo :-)

Thanks again to Charles Angelich for burning this CD for me while
Knoppix is still in litigation in Europe and as yet unavailable from
their web site.

 RJT> I'm also awaiting a package,  hopefully
 RJT> I'll get this celeron box up pretty soon.  I keep getting into absurd
 RJT> .amounts of swap being used...

I'll set mine to 128 meg which is half my RAM once I move Knoppix
to the hard drive.

 WC> Knoppix is Debian based and appears most user friendy when one
 WC> boots, boot: knoppix lang=eng All the glamorous desktop
 WC> applications came right up slick as you please :-)

 RJT> Sounds like you're having fun all right.  :-)

Well physical limits as to what I can do in one sitting
but I've already accompished a great deal with this amazing
package.
I need to find out where the OLR is located in all this stuff.

 WC> Monitor autodetected, video card detected and setup to high
 WC> resolution straight out of the boot! X-MAS came early this year!!!

 


 
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