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>On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Geoff Bagley wrote:
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>> I now have a dual boot system, with two separate 6.4Gb hard drives.
>>
Hi Lawson, thank you for your reply.
>Whyn't you just put the linux machine online and eliminate the
>middleman? So your ISP doesn't support Linux?
That is the next-but-one step.
I have already checked with my ISP, and Linux is not a problem for them.
I am merely getting up-to-speed by easy stages.
My ultimate goal is to completely replace Windows with Linux when I have
the skills required.
>
>> My question is, will I be able to install such files (now filed in
the Linux file system) to run under Linux by using YaST2 ?
>>
>I don't have any windows to run, but I did go so far as to run the
>win98\ftp.exe from an AOL CD with Wine and get some files from my other
>Linux system. It made garbage out of them in the default ASCII mode,
>but after I gave it a binary command I was able to get a tar.gz that
tar and gzip liked ok.
>> I particularly want to run Pascal. Currently I use Borland TP7.0,
>> but would like to download (possibly) gpc by the means described
above.
>>
>> Can anyone foresee any dangers, or offer any advice?
>> Will I possibly encounter problems with dependencies ?
>> What would be the preferred file system usage for this procedure ?
I think that some Linux distros may use different versions of the file
system. This might affect where I put the down loaded files.
>Huh?
>>
>> Hwyl (Is Welsh for "Bye" ! It plays hell with spell-checkers).
Best regards
--
Geoff Bagley
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