[Deaf-lug] Linux Virgin

[Dafydd Eveleigh]

Wow that a brilliant way to install Debian.

Wonder if they will do the same for ubuntu????.

Seems like an environmentally friendly way to install the OS as you are not
burning CD's or DVD's and thereby reducing waste.

I have always wondered how much Waste AOL have created with all their
CD's!!!!!!

On 08/02/07, Fintan Gaughan <fgaughan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/02/07, andrew arthur <andrew.arthur at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yep, that's me. I have been meaning to get more involved with Linux for
> some
> > years but my early attempts at installing it went badly wrong and I lost
> > interest.
> >  I am now installing Linux on my spare machine, an Athlon 1Gb job
> running in
> > an Asrock K7NF2 board with an AGP graphics card and it also has a built
> in
> > network and sound card.
> >  I have tried Ubuntu but it will not load. I don't know enough about it
> to
> > figure out why but the support forum mentions a bug that affects some
> > machines. ie. me.>
> > Now loading Debian 3.1. First I got the minimal CD and tried that but it
> > will not detect the onboard network card so it can't download from the
> > Internet. Again I don't know enough to fix it so now I am downloading
> the
> > full Debian CD set and burning CD's from them. I am up to CD4 at the
> moment
> > so I will try and install the Desktop and get something started.
> >
> > Comments most welcome. Take me away from all this!
> >
>
> Andy ,
>
> I am surprised that Ubunto did not work for you how long ago did that
> happen?
> Debian is not easy to install but I find that the easiest  is
> (providing that you still have windows on the spare machine)
> http://goodbye-microsoft.com
> Make sure you back up if you want to keep windows partition (don't say
> I didn't warn you)
>
> screen shots here eplains its all very quickly
> http://goodbye-microsoft.com/screenshots
> Did this 2 days ago as I came across a machine with no floppy or cd rom
> drive.
> It was the easiest install in all the years I have been onstalling
> distro's
> That was designed for people who don't know how to burn a distro on cd
> but it is usefull for people who have no cd or floppies :-)
>
>
> How ever failing that why not bring the machine to a local lug and get
> them to show you
>
> Fintan
>
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