Re: ot I Like Debian!


Sharx35 wrote:
> "Learning Richard" <learningrichard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1134998568.627505.112780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Hachiroku wrote:
> >> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:37:29 -0800, Learning Richard wrote:
> >>
> >> > Blew away my crusty old RH8 config last night, and by this afternoon
> >> > I'm up and running with full blown Debian. rock solid so far.
> >>
> >> I wish I could get it to load. Doesn't see my DSL router...
> >
> > I had a similar problem, in my case it was because I have my network
> > set up to assign static IP addresses... so all I had to do is go into
> > the manual configuration and put in the network info for my computer.
> >
> > At first I typed 192.169.x.x by mistake (instead of 192.168.x.x) and
> > the entire installation went down... so I started over, corrected that,
> > and within three hours Debian had downloaded the entire operating
> > system over the internet, and here I am in KDE 3.3.
> >
> > Still can't get my dvd's to play, but its only a matter of time.
> >
>
> Only the terminally arrogant and/or those with absolutely NO lives try to
> re-invent the wheel! THREE bloody hours to D/L?? What kind of internet
> connection do you have? A 300 baud acoustical coupler?

Come now Menhaden, don't be a moron. Its free, it never crashes, and
that was about 600 mb of data. Operating systems are preetty gosh durn
big nowadays.

.

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