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Getting a Linux system on the Net

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From: Philip Ryan
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 00:00
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Hi

I've mucked around from time to time trying to get Linux up on my PC, and had 
not had any success (my work PC, during breaks... so this has not been 
full-time or anything), until I got the MiniLinux distribution from the Monash 
Linux archive.

It works, the editor works, the MS-DOS filesystem works, but

X-Windows seems to go really wacky (probably a not-understood video card)

and

I cannot get the start.ether script to work

(I am connecting to the Internet from a direct-ethernet connection which is up 
and running and happy from MS-Dos and MS-Windows)

My trouble is that I'm a Linux newbie and also new to Unix, despite many long 
years of MS-Dog and Microsloth Windows.

Any assistance would be appreciated.



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Philip Ryan, Defence Science and Technology Organization, Australia
phil.ryan@dsto.defence.gov.au			+61-(0)3-9626 8265
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From: phil.ryan@dsto.defence.gov.au (Philip Ryan)
Subject: Getting a Linux system on the Net
Date: 1995/12/18
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