[Clug-tech] eeepc and terminal learning curve

[Dan Mueller]

> Re; eeepc?s command lines info.

> Thanx for the info regarding the command lines. I would love to come 

> to one of the meetings but cannot make it to this one. When would the 

> next one be that I can plan for??

> 

First Wednesday of every month.

 

>  There are two ways that I can muck around. I can install a small os 

> on a 4 gig hdd on my desktop is choice #2  afew distro?s that I have 

> to work with are DSL in various versions, puppy, eeepuppy, breezy 

> puppy or a puppy version I like is teen puppy. Also have slitaz, 

> bonsai, mepis and kubuntu 8.04.

> 

That old of harddrive is prone to failure.  Plus the performance is going to
suck.  You can still hook up the eeePC to an external monitor/keyboard/mouse
to get more of a familiar feel. I can easily hook my eeepc up to the
monitor, I have a external dvd reader/writer and a mouse aswell 

 

Once things are up and running you could just remotely access the eeePC (ssh
and screen are two of my best friends). I don't understand this part.

 

>  However? in all of that a goal I want to work towards is getting 

> contact onto my 2 gig eee pc. The only way I figure that I can do that 

> is to format my 2 gig sd card, mount it, move my home file onto it 

> freeing up some space and than im not sure if I would install the 

> contact program onto the computer memory or onto the sd card. This 

> would

 

There are a couple of ways of going about this.

 

> be a real world usable goal of mine. Because I really like teen puppy 

> and it has a lot of programs already with it including contact?.. I

 

Do you mean kontact, the KDE PIM/Email/contact program?  Yes, I mean
contact.

 

> could also install it on the 2 gig machine. The only thing would be to 

> get the wired and wireless working. So as you all can see? there are

 

The wired networking works out of the box.  The wireless takes about 5
minutes to get going.  We can help you with that once you get that far.

 

> many options I just need to learn this stuff myself than I can do what 

> ever I want. If someone out there can help me with this it would be 

> great!!  If too much to respond on the clug than you could also e-mail 

> me at tubeguy2 at nucleus.com

> 

  Would I be smart in loading the teen puppy onto the eeepc 2 gig machine
and than getting a hold of someone??  Sorry, a newb to the tech support.
Don't know the proper proto call.

 

 

Dan Mueller

Reliable Tube Calgary

403 236-7800     

 

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