If you want my advice , get a good book beforehand , like "Running Linux" from oreilly , it's excellent and will help you throuh the installation . You can download it , illegally , from various sources around the web , in .pdf or .chm format . And also there is one titled something like "Leave the Blue Screen of Death behind : go linux " , which is also ok . I do not know whether it is legal to download such books , but come on , who's gonna pay a month's salary for a book when it can be downloaded in five minutes ?
There is a very interesting site called sleekfreak ( that isn't the exact address ) , which will let you download many books , only if you're running linux , which is no good , if you *want* to run linux . But you can cheat it easily , get a download manager and make it identify itself as , say , Lynx , and download away . Getright should do the job .
Rai'da Al-Zu3bi wrote:
Excellent. If I manage to do it myself, I shall pass on this knowledge to others, particularly the Arab NGOs I work with. One of the things I'd like to eventually do is to get Arabeyes to give a training workshop on Arabic FOSS to NGOs here in Jordan...but let's take it one step at a time =)
Thanks again.
R
*/Nadim Shaikli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
--- Rai'da Al-Zu3bi wrote: > Thanks so much. Will do this weekend. Just one > question: will this partition my drive or turn it into > a Linux machine? If it's the latter, any tips on how > to keep both Windows and Linux? Sorry this is turning > into an on-line course on Linux installation =)
This is all an investment in getting people to the RIGHT side of the fence :-) You have 2 options, you can install linux on your HardDrive and have it be the sole partition there (ie. it will occupy and take-up the entire drive) or you can have a dual-boot machine. Your best bet if you want to go the dual-boot route is to already have your windows installation there and then you simply load-in the Linux CD and follow the directions (you'll want to make sure you have a partition you can install linux on and you can repartition your drive using fdisk and/or "partition-magic", etc). Once Linux is installed, it will detect the other windows partition and add it to a "lilo" boot menu which will give you the option to choose what it is that you want to boot into once you turn the machine on.
There are a number of very good sites out there on the web that are worth a quick read (google is your friend); here is one,
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO
Salam.
- Nadim
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