On Tuesday 08 March 2011 09:07:18 you wrote: > Hey James, > > How did you manage this? My mother won't let me > install GNU/Linux in her. I've tried a few times, > but she won't sit still long enough for me to get > either a Live CD or USB flash drive inserted. I've > tried rebooting first to get to the BIOS but she > gets rather upset about the idea. > > Is there a web-page or other source with > instructions that would help? > > Maybe we could have an install-on-a-relo day one > weekend????
My dreaded father-in-law is in the UK. I built a disk, sent it to him and was pleased to have him pick up the ball and run. My mate's mother is a bit deaf. I took my noisiest (and unused on account of it being noisy) machine and installed and presented it. It was accepted, used and I was rewarded with 'Bluddy ell grandma, that's linux, how'd you do THAT' :-) Finally my mother is in South Africa. My brother installed a machine for her, and while his zeal is admirable, KDE as a desktop is too complicated for her and not being able to do youtube means the 'machine is broken' So, no, there was no recipie. I found that the whole virus scanner, registry edit thing too hard for them to manage. All liked their solution and I guess that made it much easier. I guess that It does what you want (eg my father-in-law spends hours with OOcalc reliving all his lotus days) The interface is simple (That is why I waxed enthusiastic about 10.04 remix) is all you need. I definitly think an ADSL/router with dhcp makes the firewall/forwarding/ip-address picture easier. :-) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
