in fact a volunteer at the WSF helped me run the cd at the WSF media centre. but the media centre had a network connection. at home its dial up.
in fact the volunteer himself told me firebird is buggy and asked me to run mozilla instead.
as for getting engineers, i found a guy who can do it. i have postponed installation of linux for the moment 'cos i am buying a new computer.
i had earlier asked a couple of engineers who said they don't installed linux. not even if the cd was given to them. i can't risk doing it on my own cos i cannot afford to keep the computer down for long due to work considerations.
sk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Xterm" xterm@myrealbox.com To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: February 01, 2004 10:35 PM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] RE: introducing myself
----- Original Message ----- From: "Shiv Kumaar,91-22-28906693, 9820320927 (mobile)" journoshiv@yahoo.co.in
but a free distro by partecs www.partecs.com was troublesome. the live
CD
booted nicely, but there was no way i could connect to the net using the live cd. clicked on Internet>PPPsomething which detected the ethernet
card
but didn't connect to the net. i got the msg:pppdaemon died
unexpectedly.
The Partecs Live Demo CD was a working one... It was actually Debian
Morphix
from the inside... and it could connect to the net easily from the CD itself... I myself was the volunteer incharge at the media centre at WSF... I dont remember you approached any volunteer for help. Our dhcp server was up and running... all u had to do is run "netcardconfig" and that's it... you
could
have insisted volunteers to make the CD work for you... plus mozilla firebird was bundled on the CD. So there should not have been any problem? Try it at ur home... I'm very much sure internet will work...
as for installing linux, the garden variety of engineers who maintain machines, install pirated sofware, etc in
Well, the buyers of new computers should be educated first... Most of the times it happens that the buyers say, "I WANT ALL THE SOFTWARES"... i've paid you 35000 Rs... and i want everything... what can the poor gardener engineers do?
Hey where is ur garden, maybe I can come there... what do you say?
rgds,