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Re: Mont. Co. Public Schools & Knoppix

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From: Tiny Human Ferret
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 02:01
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Damon Riley wrote:
> I've been to the Knoppix FAQs and can't find how to do this.  Can you help?
> 
> I am the volunteer web editor at my kids' school.  This is not because I 
> am highly qualified--it's because I'm the only one willing.  I login to 
> the school's net with Novell.  I can instead boot a school PC using 
> Knoppix but from there I can't see how to connect to the Novell network 
> and on to the internet.
> 
> The school's net is administered by Jeremy, a kind of ciruit-admin.  He 
> rides from school to school in the county whacking windows bugs.  I 
> don't think I can count on him for help.  (I told him that I couldn't 
> open .html files in my home directory with a web browser.  He noted 
> "that's not right" and then left the building.  My guess is he's 
> overworked.)
> 
> I'd rather not edit web pages with WordPad or FrontPage (shudder--wtf 
> did it do THAT for?) but I have had no network admin experience.  If I 
> can't get Knoppix to connect, I am stuck with Win2000 while on site.
> 
> I've used Linux for about two years now, but mainly Gnome and bash.  KDE 
> is like using someone else's TV remote.  Any guru's out there that can 
> help?

Do what I do -- compose all pages by hand, with 'joe'. You could probably 
also use 'pico'.

If you must do it the "easy way", use Netscape and it's Composer.




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