On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 09:51:31AM -0600, Charles Lewis wrote: > I just spent christmas vacation configuring a laptop to dual boot (it's a > shared office laptop). ran fips, installed base system from floppies and > then used the cd that came with "Learn Debian GNU/Linux". Everything went > pretty good (considering my ignorance) until some packages decided they > didn't want to install. "No problem," I said. "I'll just configure my modem > and connect to the internet to update the packages." About 4 hours later, I > discover that my laptop has a win modem in it. :( Got an open PCMCIA slot? I know there are some good deals on 33.6 PCMCIA modems that aren't WinModems out there... Not as nice as having a 56K, but out here in US West territory, it's rare to get a connection above 33.6 anyway. (He said, from the DSL line...) -- Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com> GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others.
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