On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:04:42 +1200 Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > I am interested in learning something about Linux and to that extent I > have a couple of Live CD's sent to me by a friend in the States, one > being Ubuntu 5.10 and the other has Knoppix 3.8, I also have coming > Kubuntu, Simple Mepis, Melenix and a bit later Fedora Core. > Now being a real dummy at this time these names do not mean much to me, > but I am looking forward to playing with them. > My computer is an AMD Sempron 1.6Ghz 480Mb Ram and 80 Gb HDD of which I > have currently about 60Gb free, and using Windows XP Home. > I believe that for some programs that when doing a full installation, it > will partition the HDD before it installs (it is currently not > partitioned), correct???? > Are there places in Chch that you can get disks from for installing?? > I believe you can download from the internet some different programs but > think that most will be a bit too large for a 56k dial up which I use. > I am assuming that these above mentioined programs are all different > versions of Linux, is that right??? > I would appreciate any suggestions or info that anyone might like to > offer..... just dont make it too technical at this stage please. > Thanks > Alan Hughes > If you let me know whether you're on 32 or 64 bit, I think we can find stuff a lot newer than them. I've certainly got Knoppix 4.03, which is a good start.
Lewt me know tonight/early tomorrow, and I'll download the latest at work - you can pick them up tomorrow night. Steve
