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I think I will ask you nicely, hee hee. Ok
some guy tried to help me last night
and then, I think. possibly gave up after I sent
him my puters details.
Ok I am currently running, reading straight from
my puter here,
Windoze 95 on a HP Pavilion 5115, 16 megs
RAM. I am running IE 5.5 etc etc.
Am I (puter) to small? I have another
computer that I can "guinea pig", so getting
that CD off you might be a option.
Yes I am a newbie at lot of things. If I fall down, help me lol
$9.22 ?? hee hee
Tess
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 8:38
PM
Subject: Re: What to I need for
Linux?
Tess wrote:
> Ok in about Feb next year I am getting a
new computer. So this old dunger
> that I am on now will
officially become the "guinea pig".
> I would like to install Linux on
to this one just for trial purposes first.
> So what will I need?? Or am
I OK??
> Help?? Please.
To try out linux get a copy of the
Knoppix distribution.
Down load it from one of the links at
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
Burn
a cd as a bit-for-bit copy of the file. Or, ask me nicely, i.e.
front up
with $10, and I'll cut / burn you a copy. Shove the CD in the
slot, boot,
and have a look around.
Knoppix runs entirely off the CD and does very
clever things to save RAM
and CDROM disk space. Therefore it is rather
slow compared to a Linux
properly installed on the hard disk.
I
have tried it out on a 400MHz Pentium II machine with 128 Megs of RAM
and
it performed quite acceptably, but I wouldn't try to make it go on a
really old heap of a machine such as a Pentium I 90MHz especially if the
CDROM has not been up graded.
--
Christopher
Sawtell
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