[wellylug] Getting linux installed

[Geraint Jones]

What is the laptop cureently running ? Fedora core 5 ?

getting a system installed for you isnt the best idea - while its easy -
you wont learn a thing

tell us whats installed and i am sure that combined we will be able to
help you fix it ;-)

On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 11:04 +1200, Harrold Potter wrote:

> I am in Porirua but can drop it off to anyone
> 
> S Gallaghan <gall at buzz.net.nz> wrote:
> 
>         Hi
>          
>         where abouts are you?
>          
>         
>         ______________________________________________________________
>         Ok I have been running Xandros for awhile now but have had a
>         few problems with it so I had tried out various other
>         distributions such as suse 10.1, Fedora Core 5 and Kubuntu. I
>         was able to install Suse 10.1 fine and get everything working
>         though I was not able to install any software due to YAST
>         being broken, Kubuntu I had issues with admin passwords not
>         being accepted (5.10) I couldn’t install 6.06? as it would
>         hang when starting the install. And Fedora Core 5 would not
>         let me enable the wireless network card even though it
>         detected it.
>         
>         After reading various forums to correct these problems I was
>         not any better off. I really did like the look of suse but not
>         being able to install anything was a pain.
>         
>         I don’t know if it is against the rules to ask if anyone would
>         be interested in making some money installing linux for me and
>         also a few apps. I am not to fussed on what version as long as
>         I can get Thunderbird as the email client, konquerer as the
>         browser, Mercury as the messenger program and the ability to
>         be able to watch DVD's on the laptop and to be able to copy
>         dvd's if possible.
>         
>         I have an asus a6u laptop with an 64bit turion processor
>         1.6ghz 640mb of Ram 
>         
>         Anyway any help would be appreciated
>         
>         Steve
>         
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Geraint Jones
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