On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Bruce Burhans wrote: > Might just take you up on that, Baloo, and thanks for the offer. > Have Bellingham phone number.
There's probably a LUG in that area that you could probably bribe a geek to come out and help you, as well. Might be easier than sitting on the phone. > Hardware is basic-monitor with Intel Graphics card I can set to > BASIC VGA in BIOS, standard KB (usb), and external, controller-based > modem. Will disable sound card and winmodem card in BIOS.Won't be doing > X at first. I've had no experiance setting up USB keyboards. > These are the packages I plan to install initially- > > Jove, Mutt, Slrn, w3m, Ncftp, Unzip > Plus any necessary utilities and dependencies. > Just Bash will be fine for the present. > Feel free to criticize the selection, just stay away from X. OK. StarOffice and OpenOffice depend on X. -- Baloo