[SLUG] Install (hopefully) being done this week.

2002-04-29 Thread kagemusha
Hi, Thanks for the rather impressive replies I have received regarding my request for help with my install. The first reply I got was about 30 minutes after I posted to the list, and I'll take his offer of assistance. Thanks to everyone else, and if for whatever reason I can't link up with

[SLUG] Getting into Linux

2002-04-28 Thread kagemusha
Hi all, I went to the SLUG meeting on Friday. Was impressed by the size of the group, but found it a little daunting. The suggestion that you have a newbie meeting and a boffin meeting seems a valid and very sensible to me. To have to wait until August until you have a 'newbie' workshop

Re: [Re: [SLUG] newbie to Linux]

2002-04-18 Thread kagemusha
*** I have used Partition Magic (www.powerquest.com) to resize partitions. How is your HDD partitioned at present. Is it just one whole chunk with windows ? What is your HDD size ? To be honest, I don't really know. I think it is one big FAT32. It is definitely only one partition. It is

[SLUG] newbie to Linux

2002-04-17 Thread kagemusha
Hi All, Newbie alert! Let me first introduce myself. My name is Ian Nicoll. Any of you out there who know me 'hi'. To those who don't know me..'hi'. I've been interested in computers for many years now, and been interested in Linux for about 3 or 4 years, but just haven't managed to get