On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 02:53:00AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Tom Duerbusch wrote: > > > > > Well, there are two approaches. Either one or both together works. > > > > > > 1. Install any distribution on your laptop. One that has panels to > > > make things easier, really helps in getting Linux up and possibly > > > usefull. (doesn't IBM have a mainframe that has Linux accounts? It may > > > be for developers, but even a developer has to get his feet wet > > > sometime.) Then start to branch out, away from the panels to understand > > > what actually goes on. > > One important thing: remote administration. Try doing everything from a > different computer. Working with the linux/s390 as a nice KDE desktop is > theoretically possible, but nt a good idea. > > > > I would have 2 copies installed on the laptop, > > > with Partition Magic used. Just because with PM, you can effectively > > > DDR one PC partition to another partition, I.E. create and refresh your > > > test system that you can bomb at will. > > If you want a nice (though non-free) program to help you with that, > there is vmware.
vmware is available as a free demo. Buy, why do you need it for this? It would be good to have (if the laptop is beefy enough) because you can run vmware on Windows, Linux inside vmware, but I don't see how you need vmware to backup/restore your system. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
