a beginner to linux

Brent Harding bharding at doorpi.net
Tue Jul 18 19:09:46 UTC 2006


Will GRML support the Yukon miniport network cards? I have one on this 
system and Oralux wouldn't do dhcp automatically but windows will.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: a beginner to linux


> You might try tohd or 2hd on the CD.  Sometimes it works.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Chris Norman wrote:
>
>> I just started fiddling with GRML, It works great as a live CD, I wonder 
>> if there is any way of installing it to a hard drive?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris Norman
>> <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com -->
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "MICHAEL WEAVER" 
>> <michaelweaver1 at btinternet.com>
>> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 1:39 PM
>> Subject: a beginner to linux
>>
>>
>>>  Could anyone possibly help me getting started with Linux, pointers 
>>> which
>>>  might help me get going?
>>>  I have been trying to use Ubuntu with Gnopernicus but have been having
>>>  problems getting it going after login?
>>>  A chap from one of the LUGs (Linux User Groups I attend managed to 
>>> vaguely
>>>  get Gnopernicus running on my Laptop with Ubuntu but it is configuring 
>>> it
>>>  for speech during Login which seems to be a problem at the moment.
>>>  I haven't posted to this group for a while as someone upset me when I
>>>  enquired about trying to trace my LUG saying that everyone would be 
>>> upset
>>>  that I posted such a question on this group yet a LUG is a group for
>>>  supporting people wishing to learn about Linux so he was the only one
>>>  griping about it.  Not everyone has a sighted person nearby to turn to
>>>  like a partner and my family not only live a few miles away but are 
>>> also
>>>  less computer savvy than me.
>>>  If I had the choice I would have a partner which as regards getting
>>>  started with Linux would make my job as a newby easier only the people
>>>  running the age range I fit into, I am 28 by the way, have been very 
>>> heavy
>>>  both verbally and physically as regards me seeing someone, some might 
>>> call
>>>  it peer pressure but I think bullying is more an apt term. Whatever the
>>>  harrassment myself and my potential partners is called it turned one of 
>>> my
>>>  potential partners into a Heroin addict in one case and her parents 
>>> took
>>>  sides with her dealers because the eldest sister who has a family of 
>>> her
>>>  own who claimed to have supported me through her sister who is nearer 
>>> to
>>>  her in age who ended up on the Heroin after telling me I would be the
>>>  first person she would consider as a boyfriend told me her youngest 
>>> sister
>>>  who I could have dated instead was told by their parents to disconnect 
>>> the
>>>  phone on me in order to create a fake fault on the line despite the 
>>> claim
>>>  that their whole family was backing me over the bullying I was getting 
>>> at
>>>  Blind Schools and Colleges including by at least one person who got a 
>>> job
>>>  working for the BBC despite his reputation at supposedly the best Blind
>>>  School in England where staff in senior management knew of his extreme
>>>  views some of which were even racist and he even had a hold over this 
>>> girl
>>>  who went along with this stuff despite his racial abuse although 
>>> someone I
>>>  spoke to since admitted this person had control and said the girls at 
>>> this
>>>  School were not indipendent and very easily lead and this person was a
>>>  younger male student which was a change because men about my age have
>>>  generally refused to accept the fact that men can be victims of bullies
>>>  and not just the perpotrators. The person who had a go at me knows 
>>> nothing
>>>  about my life which has made me not even rule out the possibility of
>>>  police involvement to stop the harrassment which has caused me to so 
>>> far
>>>  live a single life instead of enjoying going out with ladies who I 
>>> could
>>>  have been close to, something enjoyed by most men my age.
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