Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread William Ballard
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:49:06AM -0800, Joseph Schumacher wrote: > I will sincerely appreciate any advice you might offer. Many thanks - Joe Make a list of the hardware in your machine. Download and burn a Mandrake ISO, and a Knoppix ISO. use the lspci command Keep a windows PC up with google.

Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread Kent West
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Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread Adam Aube
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Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread Kent West
Joseph Schumacher wrote: Hope you do not mind an inquiry from a Linux novice. Not at all. We do usually expect you to do your homework first, which you indicate you've done further down, when you mention googling. Good for you. I do not know much about Linux but I do know that I'm tired of Mic

Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:39:44PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > > > 4) Lastly, I hope you will not mind me mentioning Knoppix but I have seen > > impressive screen shots of it while there are very few available for Debian. > > Knoppix however appears to be merely an introductory vehicle f

Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/12/04 13:39), Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > > > 4) Lastly, I hope you will not mind me mentioning Knoppix but I have seen > > impressive screen shots of it while there are very few available for Debian. > > Knoppix however appears to be merely an introductory vehicle for Linux so my > > th

Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:49:06AM -0800, Joseph Schumacher wrote: > Hi Folks - > > Hope you do not mind an inquiry from a Linux novice. I do not know much about > Linux but I do know that I'm tired of Microsoft and I write to seek advice as > to whether or not my system is suitable for Linux. >

Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
> > 4) Lastly, I hope you will not mind me mentioning Knoppix but I have seen > impressive screen shots of it while there are very few available for Debian. > Knoppix however appears to be merely an introductory vehicle for Linux so my > thinking is that I may as well skip it and instead go straig

RE: novice questions

1997-01-16 Thread Casper BodenCummins
Thomas Kocourek wrote: >Larry Clayton writes: [snip] > 3. When I call man, for example man 9wm, I get the response, "What > manual page do you want from section 9wm?" So I try man 9wm.1 and get > the same response. What is the appropriate answer to such a question? It looks like it's interpre

Re: novice questions

1997-01-16 Thread tomk
Larry Clayton writes: > 1. On startup the initial login will not take any input--as if the > keyboard was frozen. So I go to vc 2 and login. Then I can login at > vc 1 again. But after I succeed with the password, it still won't > give me a prompt until I do a Ctrl C. What's happening? > >