Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3468 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 00:44 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> On Sunday 15 April 2007 00:20, Mike McMullin wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 23:45 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> > > Obviously not here, but where can I get some help to set up
> > > Win XP SP2, which looks nothing like my old SP1 that crashed
> > > and burned without any backup.  My first impression: I hate it!
> > > But I need a few things that Windows does.  (If Borders has a
> > > nice manual, not $40, I'll just go buy it. My cheapie edition comes
> > > with extremely minimum info.)
> >
> >   Create a suitable partition for it, and install it to there.  I've
> > installed XP-SP2 three times on Linux also systems and it went smoothly
> > if not over-long.
> 
> I think you misunderstand me.  The XP-SP2 is on a non-Linux machine,
> and I need to know how to make it work like -SP1.  It seems to have insulated
> all normal functions from the user, and I only found the Command screen by
> accident.  I need to know how to put the net interface in--it seems to think
> we still use modems--and on, and on.  What a piece of crap!  But I need it.

  Check out the network settings in the control panel.  I did not have
this problem with my system, but then I am running a router and point
everything towards that.  Feel free to contact me off-list about this.

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