hippy stuff? LOL! I guess a proper introduction to this would be RTFM! Ha!
Yeah, you should be able to grab redhat, mandrake, etc and install right over your windows install. The installers usually run a proggy to partition/format your drive and all. What flavour to use? Try them all and settle on the one you like. Redhat is fairly popular, a good start probably. I've been a Slackware fan myself, but that's real old skool hippy like I suppose. http://linuxiso.org for all of them. Have fun! Doug >-----Original Message----- >From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 3:09 PM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: OT: Linux Newbie Advice > > >Hey All, > >OK...so I'm going to give this open source hippie stuff a whirl ;-) > >I have an old AMD K6-2 400 MHz box with Win2K Pro currently installed > >One big issue is the passwords for this box have been lost. > >So can I simply install Linux over Windows (i.e. from boot >up)? or do I have >to wipe the drive first (FDisk)? > >What do you Linux folks recommend for a Linux package to install (i.e. >RedHat version...Mandrake etc.)? Bear in mind I know very little about >Linux and I don't want to play the command line game. So a >package that has >a decent GUI would be nice (I've seen and played a bit with X >Windows...seemed nice...but what do I know...hehe). > >So at this point...any and all advice is welcome (and feel >free to send me >info offlist). > >TIA > >Cheers > >Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. >VP & Director of E-Commerce Development >Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. >t. 250.920.8830 >e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >--------------------------------------------------------- >Macromedia Associate Partner >www.macromedia.com >--------------------------------------------------------- >Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group >Founder & Director >www.cfug-vancouverisland.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=i:4:137352 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
