thanks to you and eric's quick and helpful reply...i have been reading scads and
scads about linux and want to really learn this system, so i do want a full
install...i was unsure of which dist. to use, untill my friend told me he would
burn a copy of the mandrake/rh he bought, and that settled it...i did consider
caldera, but from what i have read, i don't think i would learn much from it...i
aim to free myself from windoze, however, i need it for my kids games (everquest
these days) and my s.o.'s quicken/office 98 files...i can devote d,e, or d&e for
linux...at present my box is a 166mmx intel with 96 megs of ram...i am going to
overclock my system soon (unfortunately my tyan titan turbo mb can only be over
clocked to 75 mhz)...and may install a faster non-intel chip...i am sure that i
will be back with many questions once i get the dist and try loading it
in...thanks again...
russell
Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Assuming your D: and E: partitions are available, your best bet for
> installing Mandrake is to delete one or both, then replace it or them with a
> Linux native partition (and possibly a Linux swap partition, depending on
> how much RAM your system has). You can do all of this during your Linux
> install using (Linux) fdisk.
>
> Whether to replace one or both partitions is largely a matter of how large a
> Linux installation you want to do. The last one I did -- workstation
> oriented, using Debian -- took up about 600 megs, But I had a lot of disk
> space available and didn't try to be economical -- you can get usable Linux
> distributions in much less space if you need to. (Sorry to sound so vague;
> it's really hard to give definitive advice without knowing what you want to
> use the system for.)
>
> If you just want to "try" Linux in a small way, there are simpler ways to do
> it. A couple of smallish Linux distributions install in a DOS directory and
> boot from DOS via the loadlin package. To find out about them, look at these
> URLs --
>
> DragonLinux:
> http://www.dragonlinux.nu/
>
> ZipSlack:
> ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/zipslack/
>
> various very small Linux distributions:
> ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/
> (includes trinux, monkey linux, small-linux, and - this one
> is new to me - peanut linux)
>
> At 09:51 PM 7/27/99 -0400, Russell Simmons wrote:
> >i am new to linux, and i want to try it out on my home pc, in a dual
> >boot setup...i have a w.d. hd with 3 partitions: c-1.98 mb, d-1.99 mb,
> >and e-821 mb...what is the safest way to load linux on my system, (i
> >don't want to loose windoze just yet)...can i put it on d, or should i
> >repartion d & e into one...oh...my friend is giving me a cd of
> >mandrake/rh 6.0
>
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
> Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA 94303-3603 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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