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[Day Brown <daybrown AT hypertech.net>]

James Miller wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Day Brown wrote:
> 
> > BL seems to offer the happy medium, a gradually additive process, also
> > running from a ramdisk, such that if an app dont work, no problem. If it
> > locked up the system, a reboot brought me back to the original setup.
> > Come hell or high water, I still had the dos boot from which to launch
> > BL to try again, or go on as before.
> 
> So, how come you're not using it now?
because when I tried to get to xwin I got error messages trying to
extract an archive. Perhaps it was a problem with case. DOS/Win users
are not used to making sure that they type tgz filename rather than tgz
FILENAME. 

Right now, I'm using COREL/DEBIAN, kernel 2.2.16. which automatically
mounts all the drives it finds. The dos drive is /disks/c... it also has
MC, which enough like the dos file managers that I find it convenient to
move files between the ext2 and the dos drive, which if I use MC as su
from the terminal, is -rw

Nor, do I know if there is a ppp driver with BL that will logon with
MS-CHAP, which all three of the local rural ISP use. I have tried BSD,
Caldera, Corel, debian 2.2r3, Gentoos, Mandrake 7, Pink Tie (RH 8),
Slackware 7.1, Storm, Suse 6.4, & and some other distro CDs which give
me error messages and dont install at all any more. Only Corel & Pink
Tie will actually connect, and then only with KPPP. The 'Internet
connection wizard' which sets up the 'connect' icon dont work.

I've read that MS-CHAP is rare, but in any case, it's real obvious to me
that the local 'support' people need help. I remember telling one of the
girls on the phone that I used Linux, and her reply was:"What's Linux?"

I dont use RH because I could setup corel without a password. If someone
messes with my files on this computer in my own house, I dont have a
software problem, I have a family problem. RH dont have MC, and it didnt
recognize the scsi card for the dos drive. Corel dont *ever* tell me I
dont have permission to access one of my own drives. A lotta other
distros miss this cause they are still thinking like network
administrators, where you dont let users mess around with drives. 

I'd like to upgrade, Netscape 4.7 is a buggy piece of shit. But got
taken for quite a ride when I tried.