On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Home.se wrote:
>Ok, thanks for the answares. They were a lot as i expected :) So far i have
>no problems selecting the packages to install but my main problem is
>that i don�t like fvwm2 very much, just for one thing, the scrollbars
>suck, to be modest. Is there any other good, minimum requiering,
>windowmanager to use instead of it ?
Well, as you can read, there are a lot of managers and all have their
fan-society. The windowmanager discussion can be endless like the
best-unix-editor-discussion. So the best you could do is simply to make
your own preference. Check out some windowmanager and you will shurely
find some wich will fit your needs.
>The reason i ask is because it has win 95 installed and it runs ok,
>not smooth but ok, and without a CD-player i can�t reinstall win on
>the machine so i have to be sure that Linux is the best option in this case
>before i start to experiment on how to set it up.
How do you intend to install Linux without a CD-ROM drive? For such
configurations I use a boot floppy and install over the network (with a
PCMCIA network card when using a laptop). Then you can easyly install some
managers, test them an remove the ones you don't like.
You could use similar approaches to (re-)install MS-Windows but they are
more difficult. Choosing/trying first Linux is not an one way road :-).
Oh, I almost forgot that with Linux there is a comparably simple way to
test everything without having to loose something. When you have booted
Linux and have made a network connection to some server before changing
anything on the harddisk (before starting the installation) make a copy of
the harddisk like:
dd if=/dev/hda of=...(some target file)
Then you can do anything (format, repartition,...) with your disk and if
you don't like the results simply boot again from the floppy and at the
same point restore the disk with:
dd of=/dev/hda if=...(some target file).
If you need the old harddisk contents you could make backup copies of the
partition(s) like p.ex.:
dd if=/dev/hda4 of=...(some target file)
and later after Linux is running you can mount the file with p.ex.:
mount -o loop PartitionCopyFile SomeMountPoint
You have the freedom to do almost anything you can imagine :-].
The best-option-discussion about operating systems is something that I
don't want to discuss here. It all depends on what you want to do with the
computer. You sound as if you have already experience with Linux so I
think you know what tasks you will have to do with your laptop and whether
you can do it with Linux. If you can then for me would be no other option
than to use Linux. The only reason why I continue using MS-Windows in some
cases is that there are some special tasks and some old software that I
need for my job.
Good luck!
Konstantin M�nning ,,,
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