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Author: der.hans
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Subject: PLUG preferred newbie distro? (Was: Re: InstallFest decisions)
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
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