[PLUG] Trying to jump feet first into the linux.

Michael Montagne montagne at boora.com
Tue May 6 08:44:02 UTC 2003


Didn't Corel discontinue their support for Linux.  Was this their distro
or their software?

>On about 06/05/03, RBBoyd2 at cs.com was heard to proclaim:

> Hi. My name Roger and I would like to get started in Linux. I have no
> experience, I have already picked up a copy of linux and am ready to run
> it.  I have a computer print out from
> http://www.belarc.com/Download-auto.html about the nuts and bolts of my
> system. "Fujitsu laptop" I opted to get the corel linux software that is
> suppose to take alot of the guess work out of switching to linux. I
> basically created a boot disk for the cd and things were going well
> corel was loading fine and then starting was going fine and it beeped
> and the screen went of and on a few times like it was cycling? After 45
> minutes the machine stopped. I turned it back on it went straight to the
> loading seemed straight forward but again after 45 minutes it turned
> off.  I tried for the third time no luck. I am trying to figure out why
> it will not load.   
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciatted.  Rog

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