Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 07, 2003 12:20 PM
Harry -- I'll send you some more details by email, but I am tapping this message from a newly-installed Linux4Kids system, living on an 8-gig hard drive inside a Compaq iPaq (500MHz, 128MB RAM). Yay -- success!
In short, the hard drive install worked, and worked well, on this machine. The toughest part is knowing [how / why / whether] to work the disk partitioning tool fdisk (which is called by the hard-drive install script); it wasn't hard for me, but that's only because I've bashed my head against it enough times in the last few years that I finally know enough to survive<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;) There's also the matter of language switching; even though I started up with lang=us, and switched KDE's preferences both in the control center and on the desktop control bar, for some reason it loves reverting to German<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:) I know enough German to find the "Land & Sprache" control, but some people won't. Note that both of these apply to plain old Knoppix; they're not specific to the OSEF version at all, but they are ankle-biters.
So, anyone still reading this message at this stage of the game, rest assured that it *is* possible to install this distro on your hard drive<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:) It's really not that hard to get the languages working, either.
There are four kids at least who will get their own accounts on this machine, so they can do their homework, play games, pretend to do their homework while playing games, etc. Besides fear of the wimpy CD drive breaking, this is actually the other reason I wanted it on the hard drive -- so they can have their own accounts / hard drive space. I know that at that age (errr, and my present one) I'd rather have my own account than just "get to use" a computer.
Thanks for the work in making this distro! Like Robin said, it has some rough spots, but it's such a cool toy with so many parts, how could it not? I'm confident that every iteration of this will make it better.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 07, 2003 12:20 PMIn short, the hard drive install worked, and worked well, on this machine. The toughest part is knowing [how / why / whether] to work the disk partitioning tool fdisk (which is called by the hard-drive install script); it wasn't hard for me, but that's only because I've bashed my head against it enough times in the last few years that I finally know enough to survive<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;) There's also the matter of language switching; even though I started up with lang=us, and switched KDE's preferences both in the control center and on the desktop control bar, for some reason it loves reverting to German<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:) I know enough German to find the "Land & Sprache" control, but some people won't. Note that both of these apply to plain old Knoppix; they're not specific to the OSEF version at all, but they are ankle-biters.
So, anyone still reading this message at this stage of the game, rest assured that it *is* possible to install this distro on your hard drive<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:) It's really not that hard to get the languages working, either.
There are four kids at least who will get their own accounts on this machine, so they can do their homework, play games, pretend to do their homework while playing games, etc. Besides fear of the wimpy CD drive breaking, this is actually the other reason I wanted it on the hard drive -- so they can have their own accounts / hard drive space. I know that at that age (errr, and my present one) I'd rather have my own account than just "get to use" a computer.
Thanks for the work in making this distro! Like Robin said, it has some rough spots, but it's such a cool toy with so many parts, how could it not? I'm confident that every iteration of this will make it better.
Tim
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