Fwd: Help for a Newbie

Ric Moore wayward4now
Sun Feb 11 21:53:54 PST 2007


On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 18:25 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 2/10/07, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/10/07, Kirk <kingvold at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I went back to the downloaded iso on my laptop and re-burned the image to a
> > > CD, this time selecting 4x speed.  It booted right up and I am on the Ubuntu
> > > machine now.  So I guess my whole problem was the first CD I burned wasn't
> > > bootable for some reason.  All is well now, and I thank you all for your
> > > help.  I'll probably have some more questions later.  I'm trying to set this
> > > up as a gateway machine for apartment Internet (approx 160 users) and will
> > > want to use DHCP to hand out addresses and set DNS caching with forward
> > > lookups.  Hope I downloaded the right version.
> > >
> >
> > Fantastic, keep the questions coming. There are no dumb questions,
> > just ones you don't have an answer for yet. Others will be where you
> > are now, and a few months from now you'll be surprised at how much
> > you've learned.
> >
> > Selcome aboard.
> >
> 
> That's Welcome. I can't seem to get a #$@! keyboard that works. This
> is the third one in a row.

The best keyboard I've ever used was on an old Televideo that ran cp/m.
It was really nice. Now they're crap. Teletype 44 had a good keyboard to
it too. Ric

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