Wow that a brilliant way to install Debian.<br><br>Wonder if they will do the same for ubuntu????.<br><br>Seems like an environmentally friendly way to install the OS as you are not burning CD's or DVD's and thereby reducing waste.
<br><br>I have always wondered how much Waste AOL have created with all their CD's!!!!!!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 08/02/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Fintan Gaughan</b> <<a href="mailto:fgaughan@gmail.com">
fgaughan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 08/02/07, andrew arthur <<a href="mailto:andrew.arthur@gmail.com">
andrew.arthur@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Yep, that's me. I have been meaning to get more involved with Linux for some<br>> years but my early attempts at installing it went badly wrong and I lost<br>> interest.
<br>> I am now installing Linux on my spare machine, an Athlon 1Gb job running in<br>> an Asrock K7NF2 board with an AGP graphics card and it also has a built in<br>> network and sound card.<br>> I have tried Ubuntu but it will not load. I don't know enough about it to
<br>> figure out why but the support forum mentions a bug that affects some<br>> machines. ie. me.><br>> Now loading Debian 3.1. First I got the minimal CD and tried that but it<br>> will not detect the onboard network card so it can't download from the
<br>> Internet. Again I don't know enough to fix it so now I am downloading the<br>> full Debian CD set and burning CD's from them. I am up to CD4 at the moment<br>> so I will try and install the Desktop and get something started.
<br>><br>> Comments most welcome. Take me away from all this!<br>><br><br>Andy ,<br><br>I am surprised that Ubunto did not work for you how long ago did that happen?<br>Debian is not easy to install but I find that the easiest is
<br>(providing that you still have windows on the spare machine)<br><a href="http://goodbye-microsoft.com">http://goodbye-microsoft.com</a><br>Make sure you back up if you want to keep windows partition (don't say<br>
I didn't warn you)<br><br>screen shots here eplains its all very quickly<br><a href="http://goodbye-microsoft.com/screenshots">http://goodbye-microsoft.com/screenshots</a><br>Did this 2 days ago as I came across a machine with no floppy or cd rom drive.
<br>It was the easiest install in all the years I have been onstalling distro's<br>That was designed for people who don't know how to burn a distro on cd<br>but it is usefull for people who have no cd or floppies :-)
<br><br><br>How ever failing that why not bring the machine to a local lug and get<br>them to show you<br><br>Fintan<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Deaf-lug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Deaf-lug@mailman.lug.org.uk">
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