[LBo] New xubuntu user still has no net connection

[Allan Scahill]

Hello Lonnie:
Now. Is Debian suitable for a 10 year old Toshiba Tecra 8000,
with a 20GB hard drive and 128MB or memory?

Also. Does the distro come as a LiveCD?
Linux is confusing in that I go to sites like

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/iso-cd/

and the whole page is links to downloads. I have no idea if I'm
supposed to select one or all of them. So that being said can you
point me to a page where I can click on one link to download what your
suggesting?

I'm trying to stay in there with this operating system,  but not
having a net connection is frustrating.
Thanks
Allan

On 6/12/07, Lonnie Mullenix <buckshot at scicable.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 15:38 -0600, Allan Scahill wrote:
> > Hello James:
> > Here is the output of my pings:
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > allan at ubuntu:/$
> >
> > Thank you
> > Allan
> >
> >
> > --
> > Allan Scahill
> > ascahill at gmail.com
>
> WOW, I really do not understand this love affair with the *buntu's.  I
> have tried a couple of them, and will run back as fast as I can to
> straight Debian, EVERY time.
>
> Allan, grab a Debian netinstall, boot up your computer using the Debian
> netinstall CD and you will have your internet connection immediately,
> assuming that your network card is supported.  Then you install the
> system and you are good to go.
>
> This assumes that you have a high speed connection.  It CAN be done on a
> dial-up, but not something that I would recommend, unless you don't mind
> spending two or three days downloading files for your system.  However,
> it does take care of the network issues that you have been plagued with.
>
> HTH,
>
> Lonnie
>
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