On Wednesday 09 August 2006 20:53, Alan wrote: > Hi Christopher, > thanks for the reply. > Picking them up is not a problem, I'll have to check with who is able to > supply to make sure I get what ever is necessary to replace the disks. > Yes there is at least 50Gb free at the top end of the HDD. > It is not an unmovable block as such, they seem to be green on the > defragmenter screen and th emain ones are blue which this block is, only > it seems to be maybe about 10Gb away from the main storage, but the > defrag doesnt seem to want to try and move it down with the rest, so I > guess it will have to stay there. A guess is that this is the disk area set aside for the swap space for XP.
> There will no doubt be lots of questions firing once I have them > installed and playing as my knowledge in that direction is very very > low. I am also a Radio Amateur as you can probably tell by the email > address, and unfortunately I dont think many of the programs I am > currently using run on Linux, so will need the Windows environment to > keep them running. Windows is Windows, and Linux is Linux. There is a system around which allow _some_ Windows programs to run in Linux. You might care to try out your ham radio programs in the Wine windows emulator running on Linux. http://www.winehq.org/ > With Open Office, are there seperat versions for > Windows and Linux, I know it will run in both, but just need to know if > I need to dowload another copy for use in Linux. Yes. OpenOffice.org has been produced to run in separate versions for Windows and Linux. So yes you will need to have another binary to run under Linux. However you will find that all the Linux distributions have it as part of their offerings on the CD/DVD. > Thanks for all the help so far > Alan Hughes -- CS
