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yippee, it works
xyroth Started conversation Dec 24, 2000
After months of trying, and a new computer, I am finally writing this using netscape, under X windows, from linux. I think that this qualifies as a christmas present to me, don't you? 
yippee, it works
some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one Posted Jan 23, 2001
Sounds good. Congrats.
yippee, it works
Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat Posted Mar 28, 2001
All this time thinking I had a Winmodem, and I've gone and done the same!
SuSE Live rocks! Only... how do you install it?
FYI, SuSE Live is a "trial" version of SuSE that came on the cover CD of the latest issue of Linux Format (April 2001). It creates a small filesystem on a file on /dev/hda1 and loads all the software from CD. It works brilliantly, even giving me 800x600 at 16bpp (previously I couldn't get bigger than 640x480). But I want a proper install, on 4GB! Suppose I'll have to buy it.
oh, Drat
xyroth Posted Mar 29, 2001
Typical, you just get h2g2 back, and after a trivial change in linuxconf, all internet access stops. ppp won't work at all, so i'm having to use windoze.
yippee, it works
some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one Posted Apr 4, 2001
I've got a CD of an older version of SuSE at home. (version 6.2 I think, from late 1999) If you want, I could post it to you. You might then be able to "upgrade" it by installing the packages from the SuSE Live CD (but don't quote me on this).
yippee, it works
Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat Posted Apr 4, 2001
Don't need it now. I finally got Red Hat 7.0 installed. I made a copy of the two-CD version that came with "Sams Teach Yourself Red Hat Linux in 24 Hours", which I borrowed from the library (and is now overdue...). Kudos to Dad for buying a CD-RW! The modem works here too, which saves me some money (though I'll still need a new one when I come to buy my own computer, say 2 years from now 
).
I also happen to have a copy of the 2.4.1 (I think) kernel, also from an LXF cover CD, to which I will upgrade shortly.
yippee, it works
Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat Posted Apr 4, 2001
Oh, and the data on the SuSE Live CD is an image, so you can't get anything out of it 
yippee, it works
some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one Posted Apr 5, 2001
You can still mount images in Linux, although from what you've said I suspect you would have to copy the entire contents. To mount image files you simply have to use the "-o loop" option and specify the image file as you would the device for a normal mount. I did that last night to check a CD image before I burnt it.
yippee, it works
Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat Posted Apr 5, 2001
Thanks, I'll try that (after fixing the drivers for that new kernel I installed... init detected the mouse, installed the driver, and left the keyboard in limbo. 
)
It'll certainly save lots of download time.
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- 1: xyroth (Dec 24, 2000)
- 2: some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one (Jan 23, 2001)
- 3: Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat (Mar 28, 2001)
- 4: xyroth (Mar 29, 2001)
- 5: some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one (Apr 4, 2001)
- 6: Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat (Apr 4, 2001)
- 7: Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat (Apr 4, 2001)
- 8: some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one (Apr 5, 2001)
- 9: Pete, never to have a time-specific nick again (Keeper of Disambiguating Semicolons) - Born in the Year of the Lab Rat (Apr 5, 2001)
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