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Author: Rob Wultsch
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Subject: PLUG preferred newbie distro? (Was: Re: InstallFest decisions)
That would be sweet. Do you have any clue how to do it without using
commercial software?

der.hans wrote:
> Am 12. Sep, 2003 schwätzte Michael Havens so:
>
>
>>If you all are going to install a working Distro on newbies computers you
>>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 my
>>box was Mandrake put onto it by a kind user. Well I formated my HD accidently
>>and had to reinstall it myself but it was not working (modem problems). To
>>make matters worse I could not find the kind user to tell me how he got it
>>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



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