Re: [newbie] Mandrake over windows selection

2001-09-11 Thread d
LURKER again, the first thingy I would tell that other person is DO NOT use the LIN4WIN or what ever it is called. If WinBlows BSD then LINUX is DEAD also, at least that has been my experience with that setup. I tried that and went to LILO as fast as I could re load. My $00.02.3 worth. At 0

Re: [newbie] Mandrake over windows selection

2001-09-11 Thread Charles A. Punch
Star Office is a resource hog. I gave up on running it on my laptop which only has 80MB RAM. Why not tell him to ditch SO and try Word Perfect for word processing and maybe some GNOME stuff (Gnumeric etc. ) for the other stuff. That was my solution. The new Abi suite that comes with Ximian

Re: [newbie] Mandrake over windows selection

2001-09-11 Thread etharp
not a problem, delete the lin4win folder, set the BIOS to boot from the CD and allow it to setup the partitions automagiclly, send your friend a few sticks of ram, and tell him not to install over windows, but to give linux it's own file system. emulation is bound to slow down any system On Tu