Guess what I'm doing right now??

[Marky_D_Sahd]

Sorry I haven't answered back with how much I enjoyed my new AmigaOne BUT.........
Truth is, I've spent the last several days  kicking, swearing (OH DARN!) and throwing things at it.  I kept thinking "I'm not that stupid, and installing LINUX can't really be that hard!," but every time I got to the second install disk, I got a bunch of error messages and a "retry" option.  Finally, figuring that I'm too smart and a simple install cant fool me this badly, I e-mailed Forefront Technologies.  Less than 24 hours later, I received the mostly good news:  I am too smart.  Installing Linux is not that hard.  The CDs in this batch were corrupt.  New ones are already on their way.  Good service, I say, although I still will have to wait to see my Amiga in action.  Sob.  Sniffle.

[Marky_D_Sahd]

P.S.  One day was wasted because the brand new DVD drive I bought at FRY's ALSO didn't work.  i'm beginning to think it's a "ME" thing.

[DaveC]

Oh man, bad CD's. :-(  On the bright side, it happens all the time.  I got a new game for my PS2 a few months ago, and the DVD was bad.  It can't be helped.  I'm sure you'll have linux up and running in no time when you get replacement CD's.

[Agafaster]

Congratulations from the Midlands !

Marky_D_Sahd wrote:
This is one of the smaller rewards of havign lots of kids

and you've got TIME to mess with computers ?! way to go ! I've got two (2 and 4.5 yrs) and I get no time !!

... and a president who likes refunding excess taxes!

ha ! we've got a prime minister who likes to tax, and thinks he's a president !
(its always nice to see people try (very hard ;-) ) to find something positive to say about someone - must've took some doing !)

... Hopefully I'll have everything up by tomorrow evening and I'll post from it then!  (Using what as a browser?  Dunno yet.)

Mmmmmm theres nowt like the feeling of unpacking a box of bits and savouring the moment just before you embark on construction ! I too have an AmigaOne (G3XE), but I havent got it online yet. I tend to stick to me 1200 for net stuff...current project is getting FTP to work between the two - tough, given that I know stuff all about the vagaries of TCP - I have tended to let Miami do the hard stuff until now !  :-D (Linux is too much of a pain in the bum if you need to configure stuff.  Boots faster than NT on my similarly specced work PC though ;-) )

whats the full spec of your machine then ?

[SlimJim]

Sorry to hear about the corrupt CD:s. I installed Linux on my
AmigaONE a month or so back, and it was quite simple. So
once you get CD-replacements, you should be up and running
in no time. The board works nicely.
 
... By the way, if you have another computer with internet,
don't you have acess to the closed AOne dev area -  as a part
of being on the mailing list I mean? I think the AOne install CD
is there as an iso image along with the needed DebianCD - all
you need to get going.
.
SlimJim