[PLUG] Guiding a geographically remote friend from Windows to Linux

Richard Owlett rowlett at cloud85.net
Sun Mar 27 20:18:12 UTC 2016


On 3/27/2016 10:05 AM, Bill Barry wrote:
> I would ask the question why do you need to know what hardware here has? It
> is very likely Linux will just boot and run without you having to know what
> hardware he has. He could send you the disk from his machine, you can put
> it in your computer, install Linux on it, send it back to him, he puts it
> back in his machine and your good to go.
>

Well-l-l-l. First of all he has several machines. Second at least 
one of them is not particularly happy with anything later than 
Win XP (not sure if it is Home or Pro)





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