Hello Gordon, Friday, January 6, 2006, 8:21:20 AM, you wrote:
GS> Hi, - im tired, so this may not sound like sense -I'll reply (if GS> necessary) tomorow... GS> Ive just spent 8+ hours battling viruses & worms from my Pc (Win XP - GS> Windows... ) GS> - I used to / or had Zone alarm (firewall) - But today, see that it GS> had been removed - not sure how, or if my a machine, or human... Oops! GS> A friend has - in the past suggested i get Linux, However from what I GS> searched on the net - You need to d/load VERY large files - to install GS> everything.. GS> 50MB + / 100MB etc (I havn't looked tonight, as its 3:10 a.m. & Im off GS> to bed - But from what i remember - Theyre very large files).. GS> QUERY 1... GS> Is there a way, that I can d/load files in say, 10 or 20MB sections at GS> a time, & then put them all in one directory... GS> - then run an install file & it checks all the archives ive d/loaded & GS> combines/extracts them into whatever Linux needs ? GS> (My computer has a bad habbit of doing something bad - when d/loading GS> big files....) Easier... Go to eBay, and purchase a set of CD's, for the distro you want. A lot of people sell them for around 99 cents per CD, plus postage. GS> QUERY 2 GS> - Is it possible to "partition" the hard-drive, so one section is GS> Linux, & the other is Windows.. GS> - so - If I want to use the net etc -I can run Linux - & when I only GS> want to play games - I run Windows (Ive got a few games that I think GS> (not sure) - do not run on Linux... Yes. It is a good strategy to reinstall Windows (unless you want to keep your buggy installation, for some reason) first, and during the process, to delete the current partition(s), then create an NTFS partition for Windows that only occupies part of the HD, and then make a data partition with FAT32, which will be readable and writable by both Windows and Linux, and then leave an unallocated space large enough for Linux (let Linux do it's own formatting... it will want several partitions of its own). Then, after Windows is up and running, reboot with the Linux CD in the drive, and install Linux into the unpartitioned (unallocated) space, and have it put the bootloader (Grub is nice, LILO is Ok too) in the MBR of the hard drive. The Linux boot loader will detect Windows, and add it to the list of bootable operating systems... might just call it DOS... but it will find it. If you have an empty front-loading 5.25" drive bay, and plan on adding additional HD's, you might want to consider installing a hot swap drive bay for your operating systems (one each, in its own hot-swappable HD tray, and then adding a couple data hard drives in the 3.5" inside HD slots for data drives, that both OS's can mount. Looks sort of like this: http://www.robertwittig.com/temp/Rack2.jpg -wittig website: http://www.robertwittig.com/ . To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
