Hey, man. Where you at? I'll hook you up with a linux install if
you're near me! No prob, It's way awesome to invite a newbee to the
LinuxFlock. So just shoot me an email and I'll see what I can do to
help. Also if you want, I'll talk you through any install that you
want. I've installed everything from A to Z in the Linux world. I've
done way too many text only installs and I feel your pain. So yeah,
just shoot me an email and I'll do my best to hook you up!
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 01:19:56 +0000, Björn Eiríksson <bjorn at einhugur dot com>
wrote:
> Hello Theo
>
> Why don't you just install one of the very easy to install
> distributions ? Like Mandrake, I have it now on 5 machines and on all
> of them it went in without any problems. Just Wizard like install
> similar to Windows Install.
>
> RedHat 9 was all right also but I stopped using it after they stopped
> making it in that form as it felt like a dead end.
>
> Suse is supposed to be one of the large distros also and one 3 of the 5
> machines I attempted to install Suse but it did not like something in
> my hardware and always gave kernel errors at install time. so I have 0
> out of 3 luck with Suse.
>
> So if you just need to get Linux installed then I recommend Mandrake, I
> have 5 out of 5 luck with that one. And that is all without any
> previous Linux knowledge.
>
> Björn
>
> On 16.3.2005, at 00:52, Theodore H.Smith wrote:
>
> > I still have been unable to install Linux on my PC.
> >
> > I was hoping to install Linux, so that I can port my plugin to Linux.
> >
> > Is there anywhere I can take my PC for someone to install Linux on it?
> > I can't see how Linux can be so popular when installing it requires
> > the highest technical skills and the patience to work through tons of
> > bugs and bad documentation. It can't be this hard to install Linux or
> > else it would never have been this popular.
> >
> > Currently, I managed to download fedora and burn it onto CDs (with
> > enough unnecssary problems no fault of my own but I won't mention them
> > now).
> >
> > Now it turns out, that I must repartition my computer with "parted".
> > The thing is, that I can't do this, because the screen on the linux
> > rescue mode of the install CD, is broken. The lines display badly and
> > there are missing lines on the screen. Unless I must do guess work
> > with a utility I've never used before, I can't repartition the
> > computer.
> >
> > I've been told that I can't fix the screen without first installing
> > linux. But I can't install linux without first fixing the screen.
> >
> > Is there some easier way?
> >
> > Something I can just download and let it install itself? Some place I
> > can take my laptop and just have Linux installed? Anything simple?
> >
> > --
> > Theodore H. Smith - www.elfdata.com/plugin/ - www.elfdata.com/forum/
> > ElfData: Industrial strength string processing, made easy.
> > "All things are logical. Putting free-will in the slot for premises in
> > a logical system, makes all of life both understandable, and free."
> >
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