[Telit Likitis]

Hope you made out ok - Me, I'm lost.
Is this suitable for a "download now, learn later" kind of guy?

I can't make heads or tails out these mirror sites, half of which I can't get.
- Telit

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Actually, funny you should ask. I tried it on this PC (my second love. Mrs. B.S. Roberts is my first). It's a Micron Milennium running Win ME (no jokes please) and I have it tweaked, configured, locked down and hack proofed to the point where it is like a comfortable old pair of slippers. I run Mozilla Firefox for a browser and she's got plenty of peripheral storage and extras under the hood. I call her SAL

The problem is, I tried Mandrake on her a month ago and she didn't like. Would have none of it. I begged and I pleaded but no dice.

So, I thought I'd give Knoppix a whirl. It went better. I got the ISO downloaded in about 40 minutes from a mirror in Germany and got it burned with Nero. I went to boot it but SAL wouldn't let the CD-ROM do it's thing. I then ran the rawdisk utility and made a boot floppy and reconfigured my BIOS and pulled the trigger. The Knoppix splash screen came up and I enter the "knoppix lang=us" switch but the message "boot failed. Switch disks and press any key" came up.
SAL was being a haughty bitch again.

At that point, I undid everything and put her back the way she was and then turned my attention to my other PC on my home LAN.
His name is HAL. I changed the boot sequence in the BIOS and let it rip. HAL went right into the Knoppix boot up and right now, Knoppix is discovering HAL's hardware.

I expect to be seeing Linux any time now.

One suggestion: When you download the ISO, download all the readme files and FAQs and whatnot. There is good info in there on how to proceed. Also, read everything at the Tom's website for setup info.

Download it and spend time reading up on the setup. It's pretty easy.

Good luck.