Setting up PPPoE under Linux and moving Win32 Mozilla files to Linux

zscoundrel zscoundrel at kc.rr.com
Fri Mar 28 13:53:35 CST 2003


Congratulations on escaping the dark side!  Beware, the forces of evil 
are insidious and difficult to resist!  Be strong nd know that you now 
walk the righteous path!

(I would like to help you with the PPPoE, but I have not needed to use 
it on my setup.)

James Colannino wrote:
> Hey everyone, can anyone give me a simple way to set up a PPPoE 
> connection under Linux?  Windows has pissed me off for the last time, 
> and as of this moment I purge myself of it's existence, like it wasn't 
> even there.  As soon as I get a working internet connection, Windows 
> doesn't even exist.  Maybe on the boot menu for my family, but not for 
> me.  It rebooted spontaneously, trying to hide a blue screen of death, 
> and when it returned, Mozilla no longer recognized any of my profiles, 
> no matter how many backups I tried to restore, and I have had it.  I 
> know there is probably a solution, but why bother anymore?  Why bother 
> with inferior software?  I hate it.
> 
> I had some very important email too.  My other question is, is it 
> possible for me to take my profile data files and port them to my Linux 
> machine and get it to recognize all my email?  My settings won't work 
> obviously from OS to OS, but what about my mail?  I have extremely 
> important mail I don't want to lost.  Please, anyone, help me out if you 
> can.  I guess this experience is a good thing.  It has finally made me 
> take the dive.  Finally, I'm free of Windows.  God, it feels good.
> 
> James
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