More Adventures With the Penguin
Jack Kapica,
Globe, Mail,
Feb 04, 2003
I haven't had time to document my great Linux experiment the way I'd like, but the project has started. I went to the Office Depot to pick up a copy of Mandrake Linux (recommended from several sources), and after digging around the back shelves (they had none on display) they managed to scrounge a copy of 9.0 (which, as I recall, is the current distribution). After reading the documentation (unusual for me), I installed it on my spare computer, a three year old IBM Aptiva. On the first attempt, the screen (an ancient Datatrain monitor) scrambled, but on the second attempt I selected 'lovga' and it worked just fine. After that the install proceeded smoothly: Mandrake recognized and correctly configured everything, including my printer and scanner. It did not, however, recognize my wireless PCI card, which means my spare computer has no internet access. So, the adventure continues. Meanwhile, this article is about Jack Kapica's adventures installing Red Hat Linux; like me, he ran into difficulties with internet access. For those of us in the wired north, Linux needs to support more than just dial-up access. If anyone could point me to a resource on this, I'd be happy to pass it along.
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