Bruno Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 JuliaI just thought first that your ¨notebook¨ was a laptop, but then you said it was a paper ¨notebook¨. I only was surprised and wondered if you were sill using the oldfashon ¨pen and paper¨ like back in the days when ¨we¨ went to school ( you know long long time ago ) !Second thing about learning and school . . . . . there are these speedy and shallow learners who want to do things fast and with little effort . . . . . then there are those who really want to go to the bottom of things and learn to, not only know, but also understand ! Learning Linux means not only knowing how to perform certain tasks, but understanding why to do it that way. BrunoPS: Nice tan Julia ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted June 13, 2003 Author Share Posted June 13, 2003 That's my problem. I want to understand it all and I want to absorb it all, not just the surface stuff. I just wish my brain would go as fast as my wants. I am one of those that learns by doing. AbeL's link lead to a great site that explained a lot to me. A lot of those pages went into my "notebook" as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbeL Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 AbeLNice link. Thanks. I printed that and saved it for my Linux binder. Bruno has already given me a hard time about notebooks and paper. I am building a reference notebook from forum stuff to help in those times when I can't get to the forum. I shall conquer Linux. Julia:Glad you liked that site (not that I had anything to do with it). If you haven't already done so, explore the rest of it. He's got a good primer for Linux beginners.BTW - I think you and I are kindred spirits. I, too, would like to become an instantaneous Linux maven. But, I'm beginning to appreciate Bruno's sage advice - it doesn't work that way! Another source of beginner info I picked up at Barnes & Noble last week is a book in magazine format (can you picture that?). The title is: The Complete Linux Handbook. There's no author given; the ISBN is 1-85870-132-5, but for some reason there was a sticker pasted over it. The publisher is "future publishing" (they don't capitalize) in the UK; their web site is: www.futurenet.co.uk. I found it in the magazine section of the store. It came packaged with a CD of DemoLinux and was priced at $20.I find it also makes a handy place to file all the stuff I print-out - like Bruno's tips. My version of your notebook.We shall conquer this Penquin,Abe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted June 13, 2003 Author Share Posted June 13, 2003 In another month or two I should get near a bookstore to check that out. I did go through the whole site and printed most of it. I did not print the beginning steps for preparing to load Linux. Figured I had that one now! I did not think to look in the magazine section the last time at a B & N. Will have to go cruise their site to see what I can find.Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 Looks like I have some amazing hungry pupils here. Sounds good, with such spirit you will get far in Linux !Julia: CD 3:This is unexplored terrain for me, but worth a try, go to the MCC --> Software management. And click on :¨Software Sources Manager helps you define where software packages are downloaded from¨Then the ¨add¨ button, this is what it says in mine:URL: removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS3 ( the full line with the word removable )Relative path to sysnthesis/hdlist: ../base/hdlist3.cz ( be carefull it starts with: dot dot slash )Then it will ask you for a CD, logic would be to insert CD3, but if I remember right the hdlist3.cz is on CD1, you´ll have to just try with what CD you are successfull, if it is the wrong one it will tell you it did not work ;)Anyway the ¨URL¨ and the ¨Relative path¨ are correct.Let us know if it worked ! Bruno* Now is the time to prove yourself, and all those eager words about learning was not just hot air ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted June 13, 2003 Author Share Posted June 13, 2003 Will try tonight. I think I tried all that but left off the two dots. * Now is the time to prove yourself, and all those eager words about learning was not just hot air ! Didn't your mother tell you knowbody likes a smarty-pants? (Translation - know-it-all) Going to prove myself anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted June 13, 2003 Author Share Posted June 13, 2003 Julia: CD 3:This is unexplored terrain for me, but worth a try, go to the MCC --> Software management. And click on :¨Software Sources Manager helps you define where software packages are downloaded from¨Then the ¨add¨ button, this is what it says in mine:URL: removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS3 ( the full line with the word removable )Relative path to sysnthesis/hdlist: ../base/hdlist3.cz ( be carefull it starts with: dot dot slash )Then it will ask you for a CD, logic would be to insert CD3, but if I remember right the hdlist3.cz is on CD1, you´ll have to just try with what CD you are successfull, if it is the wrong one it will tell you it did not work ;)Anyway the ¨URL¨ and the ¨Relative path¨ are correct.Let us know if it worked ! Bruno* Now is the time to prove yourself, and all those eager words about learning was not just hot air ! Jackpot. Funny thing is I had it exactly correct. My only problem was I was putting CD3 into the drive instead of CD1. Now how did I make that mistake. Okay penguin - what was that about hot air??????_____________________________Triumpant - one small step Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 BRAVO !! You did that well, very well Julia !Now you can explore your system . . just post the questions that come up . . :) Bruno* always get my fingers burned with those remarks of mine, will be more carefull next time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted July 3, 2003 Author Share Posted July 3, 2003 What have you done to me? Here I sit just a few weeks later and I have not booted into W------ since I had to. Where have 90% of my posts in the last three weeks been? In which forum? What happened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 Your first install was on May 20 2003, remember that date, it changed your life ! It took be quiet a few weeks in the watercooler to get you over to All Things Linux though !After the first install you did do a few re-installs and had fun with Bossover Office . . . the FUN we had !! :DB) Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted July 3, 2003 Author Share Posted July 3, 2003 Has it really been 44 days since I timidly tried Mandrake? Bruno, see what kind of an influence you are on me? I guess I am hooked. Funny, when the doc was quizzing me at the VA yesterday to figure out if I was normal, he did not ask about Linux...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 I think that´s because I heard that the army is wrestling now with Linux too . . . . you could go and give them a hand ! Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted July 3, 2003 Author Share Posted July 3, 2003 A few reinstalls? I am not even going to try and think how many. Let's just say I can do an install in my sleep now. What will happen when school starts and I have to go back to teaching W......... stuff? Will I develop a split personality? I am afraid to hear the answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 Split personality ?? Shatterd into 199 bits you mean if you go on like this . . . ( there must be at least 199 distro´s ) Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted July 3, 2003 Author Share Posted July 3, 2003 If I go on like what???? Playing in Mandrake? Trying to figure out everything on the computer? Camping out in the Linux forum? Talking to penguins? To what, pray tell, do you refer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 The holidays are not over yet, we want to try all the distro´s ! ( Sla....... too ! ) Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted July 3, 2003 Author Share Posted July 3, 2003 On my old computer? Does that mean I should go start downloading? Tell me, tell me! <oops, don't act so eager - Quint will come running> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quint Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 A few reinstalls? I am not even going to try and think how many. Let's just say I can do an install in my sleep now. What will happen when school starts and I have to go back to teaching W......... stuff? Will I develop a split personality? I am afraid to hear the answer. Hi Julia,Rebel!, go "underground", deceive...there are "styles, window decorations, and themes" for Win 2000 / XP, for the Linux KDE desktop environment. Noone has to know except you and your students. (But I am just joking, do not want to be thought lowly, by you or anyone else - honesty is always the best policy.) So just "honestly" tell the administrators that you are going to switch to Linux! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 Yes sure on your old computer !! I thought you had left some space for Sla . . . . . ?Quint: post her the link will you ?? Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quint Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 On my old computer? Does that mean I should go start downloading? Tell me, tell me! <oops, don't act so eager - Quint will come running>For your Slackware installation / experience, Julia, I would deliver the CD to your door. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted July 3, 2003 Author Share Posted July 3, 2003 I do believe I have just a gig or two or three or four or........Come on Quint, what's taking so long? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted July 3, 2003 Author Share Posted July 3, 2003 On my old computer? Does that mean I should go start downloading? Tell me, tell me! <oops, don't act so eager - Quint will come running>For your Slackware installation / experience, Julia, I would deliver the CD to your door. I see your avatar. I know what you are up to! Take a look here: Web Beach Camera It is a little overcast for the beach (the neighbors just went down though). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 http://www.slackware.com/ISO: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/sla...9.0-install.isomd5sum: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/sla...install.iso.md5 An Anonymous Penguin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quint Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 I see your avatar. I know what you are up to! Take a look here: Web Beach Camera It is a little overcast for the beach (the neighbors just went down though).Thanks, for the link, Julia...is that a "private" beach, or could you sit in that chaise lounge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted July 3, 2003 Author Share Posted July 3, 2003 That camera is down the beach about five miles at the public beach. My beach is a members and their guests only beach. We don't have cameras here. Now up the beach about 3 miles or so is the Duck Army Research Pier. They have views looking south towards us and in each direction as well as water temps, etc.Guess I might be able to do a slack install tonight. At 59.7 KB/s it will take a few hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 Quint will be there to help you through, Julia !! Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quint Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 If I had one of these, Julia, I'd be there before your d/l was complete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted July 3, 2003 Author Share Posted July 3, 2003 Probably right at my doorstep! After all, he does have boating fever about now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quint Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 Probably right at my doorstep! After all, he does have boating fever about now.Yep. Long way...down Ohio R. > into Mississippi R. > into Gulf of Mexico > around the "Keys" > up the Eastern Seaboard > dock at Jeanette Pier...Whew! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted July 3, 2003 Author Share Posted July 3, 2003 You do like to do things the difficult way. Sure hope not all Slackers are that way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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