On 9/13/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">MICHAEL WEAVER</b> <<a href="mailto:michaelweaver1@btinternet.com">michaelweaver1@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
... something about Openoffice needing Java to run. <br>I presume this error only appeared because it was a<br>Live CD running only a temporary copy of Linux. </blockquote><div><br>
Open Office does need Java. I doubt that your platform's running a Live CD (at this <br>
time) has anything to do with it.<br>
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</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I couldn't try Mozilla because I wasn't connected to the Internet.</blockquote><div><br>
If you can start apache, you should be able to get a page from localhost.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I presume sound should work if the volume level is set right on the machine</blockquote>
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... you will also need the necessary drivers and configuration settings. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">... I tried it with the Live CD because I didn't<br>really want to make too many changes to my system ...
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Quite right!<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">My sister isn't likely to understand the sudo apt-get install stuff, </blockquote><div>
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apt-get is easier than MS Windows, so it ought to be possible. If she doesn't want to, <br>
and/or you build up enough resistance to the idea then may be she won't. (I have two sisters<br>
and know of what I speak)!<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">... booting Live might give me an idea as to whether my laptop would support it.</blockquote>
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This is the right idea.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Maybe one of you lot could look it over for me if there is time and make<br>Ubuntu or other distro a permanent install.
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Do you mean at/after a meeting?<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">It was definitely booting from the live CD unlike my old worn out Toshiba<br>
laptop which wouldn't even do that ... and<br>my learning assistant Carlos who was into Linux had tried to install Redhat<br>on it and I think the Model number ... TSR120 wasn't even<br>mentioned on the Linuxlaptop site. It was one of those machines where you
<br>had to change between a CDROM drive and a floppy drive which might have<br>posed a problem.</blockquote><div><br>
Certainly, if you have no evidence that anyone has before now has had linux boot<br>
on the Toshiba TSR120 then you will be doing it for the first time, which is obviously<br>
a potential problem, and conceivably might mean that the effort required would be <br>
disproportionate.<br>
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Its having a removable Floppy and CD ROM might be a problem, but I doubt it.<br>
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Ben <br>
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