[ale] BellSouth on Linux

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 10:33 -0800, Mark B wrote:
>  I am sincerely asking for help.  I am a Linux newbie.   I currently
> have win 2000 and want to raze my hard drive and install  Linux. I
> want to sign up for BellSouth dialup, and use Linux exclusively as my
> o/s.  However Bellsouth insists they don't support Linux.  Surely
> there is a way around this.  Any suggestions and input on how to do
> this?  Thanks very much for any help you can provide.  
> 
1. NEVER tell BS you are using anything but Windows. They can barely
provide support for that so don't give them a reason to whine otherwise.

2. Dialup is dialup is dialup. All you need to know from BS is the
number to call, your login and password, and what your email address and
pop server name is and you the smtp server to use.

3. The gnome dialup tools are pretty easy to use. The KDE dialup tools
are even easier. 

The most important thing to knwo before you start is that you can
connect right now. So get the Win2K system running before you blow away
the hard drive. In fact, since you are starting out as a newbie, find a
way to KEEP the Win2K around for a bit longer. I would recommend getting
a new hard drive (20 GB is fine). Partition it into 2 chunks: first is a
huge chunk about 18GB and the second chunk of 2GB. Format the second
chunk as fat32 (NOT NTFS). Now you have a place you can drop files onto
from the W2K setup and the Linux setup can read it (In case you hork
your network settings!). Install the Linux distribution of your choice
onto the 18GB partition and have the little one get mounted into the
Linux setup as /windows  (or what ever you want to call it).

As time goes by (about a week or so), the Win2K will get booted less and
less. Eventually you can wipe the Win2K drive and have more space for
Linux stuff.
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