[Novalug] Installing Ubuntu on my 586 machine,

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Tue Dec 22 13:51:43 EST 2009


Why wouldn't you just use DHCP?

JIM

Charles M Howe wrote:
> List,
> 
> I am going to install Karmic on my 586 machine using a DVD. Having just
> finished Neal Stephenson's marvelous book, "In the Beginning was the
> Command Line", I decided to install in text mode. (There is more to it,
> actually.)
> 
> I won't be surprised if it takes days. I expect to come to a screen and
> ask a question before proceeding.
> 
> At this time, I am looking at a screen that tells me to use my IP
> address. What is that? The candidates (in my mind) are Patriot.Net's,
> 289.249.176.5 or 7. Is that it?
> 
> Or, since my broadband (or should I put that in quotes?; I think I will
> switch to FIoS (rather than (a)), instead of  cable.
> 
> Or is it particular to me?
> 
> Charlie
> 
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