a beginner to linux
Chris Norman
chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com
Fri Apr 21 11:38:19 UTC 2006
I just started fiddling with GRML, It works great as a live CD, I wonder if
there is any way of installing it to a hard drive?
Cheers,
Chris Norman
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----- Original Message -----
From: "MICHAEL WEAVER" <michaelweaver1 at btinternet.com>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 1:39 PM
Subject: a beginner to linux
> Could anyone possibly help me getting started with Linux, pointers which
> might help me get going?
> I have been trying to use Ubuntu with Gnopernicus but have been having
> problems getting it going after login?
> A chap from one of the LUGs (Linux User Groups I attend managed to vaguely
> get Gnopernicus running on my Laptop with Ubuntu but it is configuring it
> for speech during Login which seems to be a problem at the moment.
> I haven't posted to this group for a while as someone upset me when I
> enquired about trying to trace my LUG saying that everyone would be upset
> that I posted such a question on this group yet a LUG is a group for
> supporting people wishing to learn about Linux so he was the only one
> griping about it. Not everyone has a sighted person nearby to turn to
> like a partner and my family not only live a few miles away but are also
> less computer savvy than me.
> If I had the choice I would have a partner which as regards getting
> started with Linux would make my job as a newby easier only the people
> running the age range I fit into, I am 28 by the way, have been very heavy
> both verbally and physically as regards me seeing someone, some might call
> it peer pressure but I think bullying is more an apt term. Whatever the
> harrassment myself and my potential partners is called it turned one of my
> potential partners into a Heroin addict in one case and her parents took
> sides with her dealers because the eldest sister who has a family of her
> own who claimed to have supported me through her sister who is nearer to
> her in age who ended up on the Heroin after telling me I would be the
> first person she would consider as a boyfriend told me her youngest sister
> who I could have dated instead was told by their parents to disconnect the
> phone on me in order to create a fake fault on the line despite the claim
> that their whole family was backing me over the bullying I was getting at
> Blind Schools and Colleges including by at least one person who got a job
> working for the BBC despite his reputation at supposedly the best Blind
> School in England where staff in senior management knew of his extreme
> views some of which were even racist and he even had a hold over this girl
> who went along with this stuff despite his racial abuse although someone I
> spoke to since admitted this person had control and said the girls at this
> School were not indipendent and very easily lead and this person was a
> younger male student which was a change because men about my age have
> generally refused to accept the fact that men can be victims of bullies
> and not just the perpotrators. The person who had a go at me knows nothing
> about my life which has made me not even rule out the possibility of
> police involvement to stop the harrassment which has caused me to so far
> live a single life instead of enjoying going out with ladies who I could
> have been close to, something enjoyed by most men my age.
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