John, Thanks......I'll keep ya'll updated. Currently, I'm downloading drivers, freeware apps, utilities....you know, the latest version of everything I use but for W2K where it is different than WinXP; WinXP is looking more and more like spyware to me at this point. Burning all that to CD so that I won't have to go hopping all over the web looking for everything once my OS installation is complete. This little project is actually part of my personal migration off of Windows altogether. I don't feel that I am proficient enough to completely make the move yet but I plan on using Linux at all times when MY training allows. As I learn more then my need to boot back into Windows will lessen, until its no longer needed. Next week some time I'm going to be searching, probably at Barnes and Noble, for a Linux book that will explain the basics......understanding the file systems, basic command line utilities, etc. I want to get to the point where I know what files to go edit to make configuration changes, and also to the point where I am better at troubleshooting things. Any suggestions are appreciated. I suppose it doesn't have to be a book....could be a website. I'm ready to put the time and effort into getting to the place I feel I need to be to move to Linux completely but I'm not yet certain of the direction I need to move. I can install various distributions, set up email, networking, printing, etc......but I'm not really there yet because I don't understand the file system, and I don't know what tools are available to me at the terminal prompt.
I thought I was ready to make the move but then I couldn't get the VPN stuff and VNC to work.....well, maybe VNC was working fine but since I couldn't make it through my Cisco C3005 VPN box I wasn't able to test it. Thus, I decided I might be putting the cart in front of the horse and I re-evaled the situation and decided to start from scratch....going back to basics and learning from the ground up. So.......and suggestions as to websites or books that will fit my specific needs here? Thanks, Cleve ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 2:44 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] dual-booting W2K with Mandrake > 10/19/2002 00:27, "Cleve Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > I am using a 20gig harddrive. I would like to use 5 gig for my W2K C: drive > > and 5 gig for data......then I would like to use the other 10 gig for > > Mandrake. > > So do I only partition out the first two 5 gig partitions for windows and > > Basically, ya got it. > > I'd plan on treating the first go round as a test with the intention to do it all again a second time. You are basically correct, you would create two > primary partitions for Windoze and then leave the rest for Linux. I recommend you consider formatting the first partition as NTFS to increase file security a > bit and then the second partition as vfat or something Linux can read/write, so you can share data between the two OSs. > > Good luck and let us know how it turns out! > > -- > John Hebert > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://host19.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
