Hello Harold, Sunday, June 11, 2006, 8:50:17 PM, you wrote:
HW> I have run windows for years and familiar enough with dos to write and HW> edit bat files. I am currently running XP Home. I mainly use MS Excel, HW> Word, Notepad, QuickBooks, and Firefox as my browser. <snip> HW> Could someone kinda steer me in the right direction from what I have HW> talked about in this post? For an operating system to become functional, it must have I/O (input/output). Practically speaking, this means you will need a way to write whatever files you create to a file system that exists on a piece of re-writable media that can be read by your Windows operating system... a hard drive partition, or a re-writable CD drive, or a memory stick or a floppy disk. Once you have this, you can begin to 'do stuff', and save the 'stuff' you have done, so that it is accessible in Windows. Then, you can ever-so-slowly, begin the migration from WinDOS to *nix, while maintaining productivity. I grew up in DOS, began using Windows in v.3.0, began using Linux at Red Hat 7, and am currently running: Toys (no Internet connection)... DOS 5, 6.22, FreeDOS, Windows 3.11 Behind a BSD firewall... Windows 2000, XP Pro, and (soon, just downloaded yesterday) Vista Beta 2, Red Hat Enterprise 3, PC-BSD (a subversion of FreeBSD 6) In my DMZ (Internet-exposed) OpenBSD 3.7 I have clients who run Windows, so I have to support them, and also, quite frankly, I grew up with WinDOS, and will probably always have it around, in spite of my growing skills in the *nix world. Computers are not all that expensive (if you don't mind running a few years behind 'bleeding edge'), and front-loading, removable drive trays have solved the 'space' problem, and a nice router/modem with BSD packet filtration can solve most security issues, so it is possible to have WinDOS and *nix, and not either spend a fortune or clutter the house with computer gear, doing it. So much Fun... so little Time. -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . http://robertwittig.net/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get to your groups with one click. Know instantly when new email arrives http://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
