Jeremy, Thanks for the suggestions, I will probably download the cd images as $$$ is tight all our income goes into food and paying the mortgage with little left over for things like buying CD sets. A few years ago I would have just ordered of the net or run on down to my local software emporium and plunked down the cash. Now my "local" software place is at least 100 miles away!
I use getright downloader so even if the connection closes I just redial and keep going so I can just download all night and part of the day. I downloaded about 1/2 a GIG last week prior to the crash and it was not too bad. I've got a full spindle of CD-R and lots of time. Too bad I didn't know about the primary partition deal as I followed the instructions for partition magic and I am sure it "suggested" moving the fat32 partition up. Well that is over as I have recovered all my files from CD and what I could salvage with LINUX. I now have everything I need to do a full install all over again if need be, took me a while to find my monitor driver, scsi drivers for my scanner etc but I now have a list and a few CD's with all program files and patches etc. Yesterday I had two HDD's all formated and running in less than an hour less loading all my software programs so any disaster will only cost a few hours time now. It was a blessing in disguise as I had put off backing up and making CD's of my old system drivers and all that stuff. I'll look at distrowatch.com and see what is suggested but it seems since you either run Debian or know a lot about it that may be my choice. Hope you will not mind if I pick your brain if I get stuck getting it going. Could I use XOSL boot loader? I had that installed the other day and it seemed easy to use and modify. Well it's after midnight and I have to be up by six to feed our flock of ducks, parrot, and finches in the morning so I'll drop a note as to what package I chose to dnload later. Thanks for all the help, Kristin --- Jeremy Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 14 February 2005 02:30 pm, Kristin wrote: > > > Suggestions please, I don't mind downloading > another > > flavor but with a 56k connection I don't want to > have > > to download several to find one that works. > > Sorry you had problems making room for linux. > Linux can be booted from either of your harddrives > using the bootloaders lilo or grub or using a boot > floppy. > You can always uninstall the bootloaders if so > desired, > e.g. "lilo -u". If you create a swap partition, I > think that > has to be a primary partition. Normally only primary > partitions > are bootable but lilo can boot linux from an > extended partition if > necessary. Windows must always be the first primary > partition on > the primary harddrive or it won't boot--which I > re-learned the other day > when I switched the WindowsME harddrive from a > computer with a > motherboard/cpu/memory malfunction into a computer > with a Windows98 > harddrive. I thought I could use lilo to toggle > between ME and 98 but > only the primary harddrive would boot. If windows > and linux are on the > same (primary) hd and you need to reinstall windows > using the installation cd, > windows will overwrite the MBR (wiping out lilo) so > you would have to use a > linux rescue cd to reinstall lilo. > > distrowatch.com is a good place to read about linux > distributions. > You should probably choose a mainstream > newbie-friendly distro. > > Livecds are usually not designed for installation. > Their primary focus is > to pack as many useful programs in the available > medium to showcase > linux. I once installed KNOPPIX livecd on a slow > 266MHz PII. However > I was missing the sound driver as well as Debian's > aptget which could > have updated the drivers. So I had to go to the > Debian website and > download aptget and some other necessary files and > manually install > them in appropriate directories. If I had used > Debian's installation cds > I would not have had to deal with KNOPPIX missing > parts. > > Unfortunately it would probably take a week or so to > download a full > cd over a 56K modem let only several cds. Your best > bet is to purchase > a basic cd for the installation of your choice from > e.g. cheapbytes. > > Sorcerer has a small ~100meg installation cd which > is menu-driven > and will give install a very basic command-line > linux from which you > could then automatically download and install other > necessary packages > such as a desktop gui. Some very useful packages > such as the X-window > though might be 20M compressed or so. You might have > to download > another 100M of packages to get a very basic > graphical interface. And > you probably should have an intermediate level of > comfort with linux. > > You can probably get your hardware to work properly. > I once had > a similar monitor problem with an older version of > linux. I think I had > to disable display power management using KDE's > control-> peripherals->display > until I recompiled the kernel with APM enabled. > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > Flightgear-users@flightgear.org > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. 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