Am 12. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte Michael Havens so: > If you all are going to install a working Distro on newbies computers yo= u > need to take it a step further. You need to write down what you do to get > their computer going. I mean the first working Linux I had operating on m= y > box was Mandrake put onto it by a kind user. Well I formated my HD accide= ntly > and had to reinstall it myself but it was not working (modem problems). T= o > make matters worse I could not find the kind user to tell me how he got i= t > working. Now I have debian (installed through knoppix) and I figured out = what > to do to get the modem going but there are some icons on the desktop that > will not work! (these are the 'CD-ROM' and 'Floppy disk' icons) > So, as you can see (I hope), we need to give people some persoalized > documentation. I mean we handed out knoppix CDs but that was all. When I > first got my knoppix CD I had not a clue what to do with it. Maybe we need to have an 'emergency recovery partition' like companies selling boxen with m$ on them do. Many of the boxen will have more than enough room for that. ciao, der.hans --=20 # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.AZOTO.org/ # When you are tired of choosing the lesser of two evils, # Vote Cthulhu for President!