[DreamsofPolycarp]

If you are going to put the guy on a linux version. you should stick with MEPIS. It sees everything, installs drivers for everything and gets the guy on the internet right away, and allows him to poke around in his file system to see if he can do anything with the data and/or os. Make it easy on the newbies, and NOTHING is easier than Mepis.

It does sound like he needed to burn the cd as an image.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Still trying to get on the internet (on the broken computer). Rebooting doesn't work, and so the 'drivers' and 'network interfaces' are not recorded, and have to go through the installation each time ('' used to show unfamiliarity with those things). Is there some sort of standard Linux, or are there many, many versions. Should this MEPIS be used, or will it be another dead end (which Puppy Linux currently seems to be)?