On Monday 20 January 2003 10:54 pm, John & Peg Pickard wrote: > > In short, will I be able to do something productive with Debian LINUX? And > then I will want to network it with our laptop running WinME, and a LinkSys > Print server, and possibly a US Robotics broadband router (if I can use the > "back up" dial up connection on a permanent basis, which would then have an > external modem). All without requiring a PHD in networking? If I get that > far, LINUX will be for real, and I will also load it on my old 100 mhz Dell > and network that too. > > Any hope?
I would strongly recommend you install Debian by way of Libranet (www.libranet.com). The installer detects hardware quite well, and in general is about as painless as any -good- linux installer. It's not gorgeous and pointy-clickety installer like bankrupt Mandrake, but it works quite well, and about the only thing it doesn't do for me that I'd like it to do is install the NVidia ACCELERATED drivers. It _does_ however install the nv driver just fine. The 2.0 version (one version behind) is a free download from their website. Between their mailing list and this one you should get all the support you can stand. dave w -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
