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Thanks Mel. That seems to work. I can now get almost as far as the desktop and then I get a message saying "Could not read network connection list. Please check that "dcopserver" program is running' I have no idea what that means or how to do it. Should this problem go as a new topic? Sorry, I'm not sure what the drill is.

The distro is called Move and is a special version of Mandrake. It comes with a book by David Brickner called "test driving linux", published this year by O'REILLY. It only works from the disk and cannot be loaded onto the hard drive. I've tried two ways to get it going. 1 - Quickly inserting the disk on starting up the computer. 2 - Clicking 'Restart' on the Windows close-down menu and again quickly inserting the disk before windows can restart. This is what happens: The startup splash screen appears; I press 'Enter'; a thermometer-type image appears with the message "Loading part 1"; the same again with "Loading Part 2" and then again with "Loading part 3". Then the screen goes blank; a small rectangle appears, floating around the screen rather like a screensaver but saying "Video mode not supported." That's as much as I can tell you. I hope it makes some kind of sense to you. Thanks for showing interest

Hi. I'm a potential new Linux user currently testing the water but I've already had my toe bitten off. Trying to use a live CD, the system wouldn't/couldn't operate my monitor which is a Samsung SyncMaster 193T. Can anyone help? I don't want to have to buy a new monitor. I'd probably decide to stick with Windows. I'd appreciate your help and/or advice. Thanks.