I came to the same conclusions myself. So far the easiest way for me to transport between win and linux is to burn it on cd, even for a small file. One nice thing about your method is that I will be learning how to dld in a terminal via ftp.
On 22 Dec 2005 at 18:48, John Rye wrote: > jim allAn wrote: > > It seems this might work IF I had a working modem IN linux, which > > I ain't. > > I had better just wait until the disks get here before I go crazy. > > I entered all the info as correctly as I could figure out, but > > step 3 stymied me. How could I do that unless I was in linux where > > it couldn't work because of no modem in linux. > > I hate to keep picking your brain and getting nowhere. I wish > > there was a club meeting in my area where I could just go and see it > > done or something. I may end up just giving up on linux entirely. > > It is so depressing to try and try with no success. > > Jim, question and suggestion. > > IMPORTANT: Read this through BEFORE you do anything > > I think you said you were dualbooting between Windows and Linux, so try > this: > > Go back to the easyurmpi site via Windows. > Once you have got steps one and two complete, you will have the data > needed for step three. > >From Windows open a text editor (Notepad, Wordpad etc - but NOT a > wordprocessor). > Use whichever method windows uses to copy text from a website (possibly > highlight the text and hit ctrl-c) > Now paste it into the text editor. > Save the textfile to a filename easily recognised in a place on the > windows file system which you know you can see from Linux (the root > directory sounds good) > > Now reboot to Linux > > As root look for the file on the windows partition and copy to the linux > machine. > > Then you can open the file and paste the content into a root terminal to > set up your sources. > > But because you don't have a working modem that's about as far as you > can get at this point. > > So, as you comment above, you're kinda stymied til the cds arrive. > > However the method I've described above shouldwork(tm) for any situation > where you cannot access the net from Linux. > > Cheers > > John > > ____________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? > Go to http://store.mandriva.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com > ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
