I'm pretty new to linux, used to be a windows guy... *shudder*


linux has been very good to me...at school too

my first was DSL(Damn small linux-50 megs minimal (I have dial-up, so 50 megs wasn't as bad as a full 700... )

dsl is knoppix based,

so at school I booted my live cd on one of their machines, just like that- it already set up the network, sound, found all the drives...(without touching the hdd)

only thing I needed was to set up the internet proxy...(our school needs the user to log in to the proxy...)
though logging in is not a problem, as the tech support is very poor, and can't tell the difference between me logging from a windows machine, or knoppix...

using dsl, and figuring out the fancy samba thing to save the iso to my own folder on the school's public space, I downloaded the newest knoppix full iso...

never looked back...


if the pc supports booting from usb, you can just copy the files from cd to a jump drive, and boot from there

I've had good fortune when slurping the school's T1 connection to the internet, with no problems from the tech/network/hard drives