Re: [newbie] two systems
Derek Jennings wrote: Almost all of us either run dual booting machines, or used to before kicking the windows habit entirely. It's a breeze.. Just remember to defragment your Win98 drive first (and do not select the check box that offers to make programs load faster) This will free up space on your hard drive so a Linux partition can be added. Set your BIOS to boot from CD and insert the Mandrake disc. The auto install will then take care of everything else. Just select the default install. Mandrake will automatically create partitions for linux, and will install everything. Mandrake 8.2 came out this week. If you have access to broadband it is worth trying to download a copy. It is the best Mandrake version yet, and supports the most hardware. If you run into problems please consult the list archives before posting. http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ derek On Thursday 21 March 2002 01:10, Ron Grace wrote: does anybody run both linux and windows on the same machine? how much trouboe was it to get to work. i am running windows 98se,and going to try to load mandrake Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com A dual booting system is probably what most of us have. The one problem I had when I first installed Mandrake was that the automatic partitioning system overwrote my windows setup on the first attempt. You can get round this but pay attention to what the install process is trying to do. The default seems to be to install to the first available partition -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] two systems
Almost all of us either run dual booting machines, or used to before kicking the windows habit entirely. It's a breeze.. Just remember to defragment your Win98 drive first (and do not select the check box that offers to make programs load faster) This will free up space on your hard drive so a Linux partition can be added. Set your BIOS to boot from CD and insert the Mandrake disc. The auto install will then take care of everything else. Just select the default install. Mandrake will automatically create partitions for linux, and will install everything. Mandrake 8.2 came out this week. If you have access to broadband it is worth trying to download a copy. It is the best Mandrake version yet, and supports the most hardware. If you run into problems please consult the list archives before posting. http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ derek On Thursday 21 March 2002 01:10, Ron Grace wrote: does anybody run both linux and windows on the same machine? how much trouboe was it to get to work. i am running windows 98se,and going to try to load mandrake Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] two systems
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 20:10, Ron Grace wrote: does anybody run both linux and windows on the same machine? how much trouboe was it to get to work. I have done this on several systems, dual-booting Win98/Caldera, Win98/Red Hat, Win98/SuSE, Win98/Mandrake, Win2k/SuSE, Win2k/Mandrake. It has always been very easy and I never had any problems at all. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Two systems....
Your description is a bit vague, please diagram your setup... are all your machines DHCP within a LAN? Or, is this an attempt to establish DHCP assignmet through a DSL/Cable ISP? Is your router the only server doing DHCP assignment? What steps did you take to set up the NICs? Did you do this manually, in DrakConf, LinuxConf? What networks cards are you using? Does you router have enough IPs in the block to satisfy all the clients? Are these IPs "real" or masqued/internal-block IPs? --Greg S. - Original Message - From: "gcobb" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I have a Mandrake system and two Windows systems on a network. I want to add a second Mandrake system but I'm not able to get DCHP on the Linux system that comes up last. If I turn one system off I can get an IP, but not on both at the same time. They don't have the same system name, FQDN or NETBIOS name but are on the same domain. Is there a simple step I missed somewhere along the way that should allow me to use both at the same time. I am also behind a router that uses internal DHCP addressing. Thanks! -Greg- __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] Two systems....
Your description is a bit vague, please diagram your setup... are all your machines DHCP within a LAN? Or, is this an attempt to establish DHCP assignmet through a DSL/Cable ISP? Is your router the only server doing DHCP assignment? Greg, can you recommend a good book on doing small networks at home? I've got 3 machines here that I'd like to link but I don't know much at all about DHCP and even less about the hardware beyond basics of how ethernet works. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Two systems....
Shah, Steve. Linux Administration, A Beginner's Guide: Osbourne/McGraw Hill. Berkley, Calif. 2000. By no means "A Beginner's Guide", but well written, easy to understand, and very comprehensive. The networking section is at the end of the book, but everything in the text is useful. If you have any questions, just ask. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Larry Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg, can you recommend a good book on doing small networks at home? I've got 3 machines here that I'd like to link but I don't know much at all about DHCP and even less about the hardware beyond basics of how ethernet works. Cheers --- Larry Your description is a bit vague, please diagram your setup... are all your machines DHCP within a LAN? Or, is this an attempt to establish DHCP assignmet through a DSL/Cable ISP? Is your router the only server doing DHCP assignment? __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] Two systems....
Shah, Steve. Linux Administration, A Beginner's Guide: Osbourne/McGraw Hill. Berkley, Calif. 2000. By no means "A Beginner's Guide", but well written, easy to understand, and very comprehensive. The networking section is at the end of the book, but everything in the text is useful. Sounds just what the doctor ordered. Will hunt it down next week. If you have any questions, just ask. Will have to read some first but thanks. Cheers --- Larry
RE: [newbie] Two systems....
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg Stewart Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 6:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Two systems Your description is a bit vague, please diagram your setup... are all your machines DHCP within a LAN? Or, is this an attempt to establish DHCP assignmet through a DSL/Cable ISP? Is your router the only server doing DHCP assignment? I have a cable modem with a Linksys router behind it feeding 3 systems. The 4th was going to be another Linux box. The router does DHCP with internal addressing. What steps did you take to set up the NICs? Did you do this manually, in DrakConf, LinuxConf? What networks cards are you using? Does you router have enough IPs in the block to satisfy all the clients? Are these IPs "real" or masqued/internal-block IPs? Upon install the 3C509 cards were installed. I just had to select 3C509 on the Kernel mode field. I got an address subsequent to that point, so the system was in working order. I have more than enough addresses to hand out. I couldn't get the second system to get an address while the first one was running. The card wouldn't initialize on boot because it couldn't get an address. If I put another Windows system in its place I can get a 4th IP. Thanks --Greg S. - Original Message - From: "gcobb" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I have a Mandrake system and two Windows systems on a network. I want to add a second Mandrake system but I'm not able to get DCHP on the Linux system that comes up last. If I turn one system off I can get an IP, but not on both at the same time. They don't have the same system name, FQDN or NETBIOS name but are on the same domain. Is there a simple step I missed somewhere along the way that should allow me to use both at the same time. I am also behind a router that uses internal DHCP addressing. Thanks! -Greg- __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
RE: [newbie] Two systems....
Hi Larry, I wish I had some good information for you. I was outsourced at an international company for 3 years, so I just managed to pick up whatever I know now from that gig, plus whatever certification material I managed to run across. I learned enough to keep me afloat. If you learn just a little about protocols you can go a long way. Sorry I'm not any more help. -Greg- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Marshall Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 7:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Two systems Your description is a bit vague, please diagram your setup... are all your machines DHCP within a LAN? Or, is this an attempt to establish DHCP assignmet through a DSL/Cable ISP? Is your router the only server doing DHCP assignment? Greg, can you recommend a good book on doing small networks at home? I've got 3 machines here that I'd like to link but I don't know much at all about DHCP and even less about the hardware beyond basics of how ethernet works. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Two systems....
OK, I'm going to assume you set both linux boxes up the same way, probably using the default services. You might want to check to see that pump is running (in terminal, type: top "pump" should be listed, or dhcpcd if you chose to install that instead). In the configuration, have you given the workstation a name with a convention different from the one that does lease an IP from the router? If you take the 1st linux box off the LAN, and try to put the "4th" one in it's place (the one that can't get an IP)... does this machine get the lease? Or is it still dead? Have you tried using linuxconf to configure the NIC on the "4th" linux box? If not, try going to Basic Host Configuration, and selecting eth0 on that machine... leave everything blank--even the host name--and just select activate at boot, and DHCP. If all else seems fine, here's an embarrassing move that must get me at least once a month--check the cable to see that you haven't put one in with a short or a break in it. I really can't count how many times I've installed a workstation and fuss around for an hour or so thinking I've made a configuration error, and it's the damned cable. Let me know what happens... --Greg (I don't need my last initial here, do I? You know you're not me!) - Original Message - From: "gcobb" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg Stewart Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 6:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Two systems Your description is a bit vague, please diagram your setup... are all your machines DHCP within a LAN? Or, is this an attempt to establish DHCP assignmet through a DSL/Cable ISP? Is your router the only server doing DHCP assignment? I have a cable modem with a Linksys router behind it feeding 3 systems. The 4th was going to be another Linux box. The router does DHCP with internal addressing. What steps did you take to set up the NICs? Did you do this manually, in DrakConf, LinuxConf? What networks cards are you using? Does you router have enough IPs in the block to satisfy all the clients? Are these IPs "real" or masqued/internal-block IPs? Upon install the 3C509 cards were installed. I just had to select 3C509 on the Kernel mode field. I got an address subsequent to that point, so the system was in working order. I have more than enough addresses to hand out. I couldn't get the second system to get an address while the first one was running. The card wouldn't initialize on boot because it couldn't get an address. If I put another Windows system in its place I can get a 4th IP. Thanks --Greg S. - Original Message - From: "gcobb" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I have a Mandrake system and two Windows systems on a network. I want to add a second Mandrake system but I'm not able to get DCHP on the Linux system that comes up last. If I turn one system off I can get an IP, but not on both at the same time. They don't have the same system name, FQDN or NETBIOS name but are on the same domain. Is there a simple step I missed somewhere along the way that should allow me to use both at the same time. I am also behind a router that uses internal DHCP addressing. Thanks! -Greg- __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] Two systems
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Robert Thrall wrote: | I am running both Windows 98 and Linux-Mandrake 6.5 on my machine, but | Windows is on one hard disk with these specs: Partition -1 Statis- A | Type-PRI DOS Volume Label- My Computer Mbytes-8025 System-Fat 32 | Usage-100%. I have loaded Mandrake-Linux 6.5 on a second hard disk with | these specs: /dev/hdc3579M409M-used Avail-140M Mounted on / | | /dev/hdc1 547M 32K-used Avail-547M Mounted | on-mnt/DOS_hdc1 | | My local cabel company COGECO informs me that no Linux system is | compatible with their modems so I can not connect to the Internet | through Linux. However, can Linux read Windows 98? Can I still dowload | software in Windows and somehow transfer it to Linux. The word | 'transfer' may be wrong, but can I use the two together somehow so that | I can download software to the Linus system. Any help would be | appreciated. | | Robert Robert, You should be able to do your downloads with Windows, then restart to Linux, and mount the DOS partition you did the download to, then do as you will with the downloaded file. HTH, Ernie
Re: [newbie] Two systems+CableModem
Being a cable-modem user here in Alaska we have had some difficulty at first getting them to recognize us Linux users as a bonifide group, but the change has come rapidly, in fact the last Tech Support person I talked to runs LInux-Mandrake at home and in fact the ISP has switched to running a Linux DHCPD server Their NT system proved unsatisfactory. I would suggest if possible to contact other experienced Linux users in your area to verify the validity of the staement made by the person you talked to or try talking to other support personnel if possible. I had one problem that took me a month and several different tech people to get straightened out due to their lack of understanding of not only Linux but how net bios filtering worked and cable-modem protocols in general were utilized. Good Luck William Bouterse Juneau Alaska
Re: [newbie] Two systems
YES, you can read/write to your Windows partition while running Linux. One of my best compliments to Linux is that it supports up to 17 filesystems at last count. My Linux system automatically mounts my Windows partition. It appears that your Windows partition is already mounted as /mnt/DOS_hdc1. Use Kexplorer and navigate to the /mnt/DOS_hdc1 directory. You should be looking at all your windows files. BINGO! HTH, Matt From: Robert Thrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Two systems Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:45:29 -0800 I am running both Windows 98 and Linux-Mandrake 6.5 on my machine, but Windows is on one hard disk with these specs: Partition -1 Statis- A Type-PRI DOS Volume Label- My Computer Mbytes-8025 System-Fat 32 Usage-100%. I have loaded Mandrake-Linux 6.5 on a second hard disk with these specs: /dev/hdc3579M409M-used Avail-140M Mounted on / /dev/hdc1 547M 32K-used Avail-547M Mounted on-mnt/DOS_hdc1 My local cabel company COGECO informs me that no Linux system is compatible with their modems so I can not connect to the Internet through Linux. However, can Linux read Windows 98? Can I still dowload software in Windows and somehow transfer it to Linux. The word 'transfer' may be wrong, but can I use the two together somehow so that I can download software to the Linus system. Any help would be appreciated. Robert __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Two systems
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote: My local cabel company COGECO informs me that no Linux system is compatible with their modems so I can not connect to the Internet through Linux. However, can Linux read Windows 98? Can I still dowload software in Windows and somehow transfer it to Linux. The word 'transfer' may be wrong, but can I use the two together somehow so that I can download software to the Linus system. Any help would be appreciated. I wouldn't necessarily take their word for it. They just don't WANT you to use Linux. AFAIK, a cable modem is just another network device, which uses coax to connect to your computer. John
Re: [newbie] Two systems
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote: My local cabel company COGECO informs me that no Linux system is compatible with their modems so I can not connect to the Internet through Linux. However, can Linux read Windows 98? Can I still dowload software in Windows and somehow transfer it to Linux. The word 'transfer' may be wrong, but can I use the two together somehow so that I can download software to the Linus system. Any help would be appreciated. I wouldn't necessarily take their word for it. They just don't WANT you to use Linux. AFAIK, a cable modem is just another network device, which uses coax to connect to your computer. John Unless they are useing one of the internal cablemodems it most likely to work. They general just plug into a ethernet card. They may require extra software however that doesn't have a linux port.. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Two systems
Unless they are useing one of the internal cablemodems it most likely to work. They general just plug into a ethernet card. They may require extra software however that doesn't have a linux port.. I have a cable modem connnected to the uplink port of an ethernet hub and it works great for my Macs. I haven't configured the linux boxes on my net to use it because I need static IP numbers for them. However, I can see no reason why it would make any difference what kind of machine on the network is going through the cable modem. Of course, then I could be completely wrong :-) Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D. .~. /V\ //.\\ /( )\ ^^-^^
Re: [newbie] Two systems
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Eric Mings wrote: Unless they are useing one of the internal cablemodems it most likely to work. They general just plug into a ethernet card. They may require extra software however that doesn't have a linux port.. I have a cable modem connnected to the uplink port of an ethernet hub and it works great for my Macs. I haven't configured the linux boxes on my net to use it because I need static IP numbers for them. However, I can see no reason why it would make any difference what kind of machine on the network is going through the cable modem. Of course, then I could be completely wrong :-) :) like i said "may require", take for instance the rrlogin program.
Re: [newbie] Two systems
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote: I am running both Windows 98 and Linux-Mandrake 6.5 on my machine, but Windows is on one hard disk with these specs: Partition -1 Statis- A Type-PRI DOS Volume Label- My Computer Mbytes-8025 System-Fat 32 Usage-100%. I have loaded Mandrake-Linux 6.5 on a second hard disk with these specs: /dev/hdc3579M409M-used Avail-140M Mounted on / /dev/hdc1 547M 32K-used Avail-547M Mounted on-mnt/DOS_hdc1 My local cabel company COGECO informs me that no Linux system is compatible with their modems so I can not connect to the Internet through Linux. However, can Linux read Windows 98? Can I still dowload software in Windows and somehow transfer it to Linux. The word 'transfer' may be wrong, but can I use the two together somehow so that I can download software to the Linus system. Any help would be appreciated. Robert Yes you can mount Windoze Partions, I have my 2gig Win98 partion mounted as /mnt/DOS_hda1 and it works well try the linuxconf tool to mount filesystems and it will auto update your fstab file.
Re: [newbie] Two systems
How about running through what you did to make Windows work on your Linux system. Let us say that you just downloaded something into your Windows System. How do you get your Mandrake Linux system to use this download in its own system? Linux is mainly DOS commands. You say your Windows 98 is mounted on /mnt/DOS/hda1. My partition is hdc1m in Linux and my Windows 98 partition 1 on C:\ drive. I'm obviously missing something. What is it? MickeyMutant wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote: I am running both Windows 98 and Linux-Mandrake 6.5 on my machine, but Windows is on one hard disk with these specs: Partition -1 Statis- A Type-PRI DOS Volume Label- My Computer Mbytes-8025 System-Fat 32 Usage-100%. I have loaded Mandrake-Linux 6.5 on a second hard disk with these specs: /dev/hdc3579M409M-used Avail-140M Mounted on / /dev/hdc1 547M 32K-used Avail-547M Mounted on-mnt/DOS_hdc1 My local cabel company COGECO informs me that no Linux system is compatible with their modems so I can not connect to the Internet through Linux. However, can Linux read Windows 98? Can I still dowload software in Windows and somehow transfer it to Linux. The word 'transfer' may be wrong, but can I use the two together somehow so that I can download software to the Linus system. Any help would be appreciated. Robert Yes you can mount Windoze Partions, I have my 2gig Win98 partion mounted as /mnt/DOS_hda1 and it works well try the linuxconf tool to mount filesystems and it will auto update your fstab file.
Re: [newbie] Two systems
I have 3 operating os's on my 2 hard drives. I have Dos 6 with Windoze 3.1 on a hidden primary, Windoze 98 on a 5 gig (fat32) hidden primary, and Linux-Mandrake on another. I also have a 1.5 gig logical partion that all the os's can see (fat16). I can just download or move files to the fat 16 and any of my os's can access it, but still can't see each other. Works for me anyway. Good luck, Don - Original Message - From: Robert Thrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 9:45 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Two systems How about running through what you did to make Windows work on your Linux system. Let us say that you just downloaded something into your Windows System. How do you get your Mandrake Linux system to use this download in its own system? Linux is mainly DOS commands. You say your Windows 98 is mounted on /mnt/DOS/hda1. My partition is hdc1m in Linux and my Windows 98 partition 1 on C:\ drive. I'm obviously missing something. What is it? MickeyMutant wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote: I am running both Windows 98 and Linux-Mandrake 6.5 on my machine, but Windows is on one hard disk with these specs: Partition -1 Statis- A Type-PRI DOS Volume Label- My Computer Mbytes-8025 System-Fat 32 Usage-100%. I have loaded Mandrake-Linux 6.5 on a second hard disk with these specs: /dev/hdc3579M409M-used Avail-140M Mounted on / /dev/hdc1 547M 32K-used Avail-547M Mounted on-mnt/DOS_hdc1 My local cabel company COGECO informs me that no Linux system is compatible with their modems so I can not connect to the Internet through Linux. However, can Linux read Windows 98? Can I still dowload software in Windows and somehow transfer it to Linux. The word 'transfer' may be wrong, but can I use the two together somehow so that I can download software to the Linus system. Any help would be appreciated. Robert Yes you can mount Windoze Partions, I have my 2gig Win98 partion mounted as /mnt/DOS_hda1 and it works well try the linuxconf tool to mount filesystems and it will auto update your fstab file. __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Two systems
Yes you can read files from different OS's partitions in a single system and I think there's a HOWTO or Mini HOWTO on it. I'm not at my machine with the information handy, but you simply direct LINUX to the location on the drive and grab the file. You can use Microsoft to get the data and then read it via LINUX. Bigger question, what makes a cable modem activated via LINUX different than through Windows that the cable company can't accommodate you? I don't have one and so ask out of ignorance. Hopefully someone will have the details, but it is possible. B. B. Robert Thrall wrote: I am running both Windows 98 and Linux-Mandrake 6.5 on my machine, but Windows is on one hard disk with these specs: Partition -1 Statis- A Type-PRI DOS Volume Label- My Computer Mbytes-8025 System-Fat 32 Usage-100%. I have loaded Mandrake-Linux 6.5 on a second hard disk with these specs: /dev/hdc3579M409M-used Avail-140M Mounted on / /dev/hdc1 547M 32K-used Avail-547M Mounted on-mnt/DOS_hdc1 My local cabel company COGECO informs me that no Linux system is compatible with their modems so I can not connect to the Internet through Linux. However, can Linux read Windows 98? Can I still dowload software in Windows and somehow transfer it to Linux. The word 'transfer' may be wrong, but can I use the two together somehow so that I can download software to the Linus system. Any help would be appreciated. Robert
Re: [newbie] Two systems
My local cabel company COGECO informs me that no Linux system is compatible with their modems so I can not connect to the Internet through Linux. However, can Linux read Windows 98? Can I still dowload software in Windows and somehow transfer it to Linux. The word 'transfer' may be wrong, but can I use the two together somehow so that I can download software to the Linus system. Any help would be appreciated. Robert alias mntwin="mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /Win" I put this line in '/etc/bashrc ', so that when I type 'mntwin' in a console, my C:\ drive, 1st partition is mounted, ie., Windows98. When I'm done I type 'umount /Win' to unmount Windows. Whether your C:\ drive is fat 16 or 32, this will let you navigate your Windows dir's just as if they were any other dir's under Linux. For this to work on your system you need to create a dir off '/' named 'Win', or name it anything you want and put it where ever you want, and edit the 'bashrc' line to match. 'Course you don't have to put the line in 'bashrc', but then you'll need to type ' mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /Win ' every time you want access to Windows. With Windows mounted, and two KFM windows open, one to the Windows dir where the files you want are, the other to the Linux dir you want to copy/move them to, it's then just a simple drag'n drop to transfer the files. -- .. Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
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Bigger question, what makes a cable modem activated via LINUXdifferent than through Windows that the cable company can't accommodateyou? I don't have one and so ask out of ignorance. I answer out of ignorance... I think they aren't sure, and Linux to many people is this esoteric, radical OS; they *think* it won't work, know nothing about it, so they aren't willing to *see* if it'll work or not. It's much easier for them to set things up if they don't have to experiment w/ (or know anything about) anything other than Windose. Besides that, they wouldn't want to make any claims if they're not really *sure* they can back them (like "we support Linux!"). It's just safer for a company to stick to what they know, even if the answers are dangling in front of their face Besides, they've probably got a big enough customer base just supporting windows... Sad but true... Sometimes, I like giving cust. support (whenever I get ticked) a hard time just to say "hey!, I want some help over here, and your company doesn't give a rat's ass!" Later, I feel bad, cuz it's just a CSR, but then again, talking to a VP or something is impossible (voicemail, etc..), and they *really* don't want to hear it anyway. That's my "Deep Thought" for the night... Later -Josh
