Re: [newbie] Newbie Request

2004-01-30 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:27:46 +1300 anton disseminated the following: Don't be silly now, and format the bugger in NTFS. Only problem is, IIRC, writing to NTFS partitions from Linux is still 'at your own risk', whereas at least with FAT32 there's no probs with reading or writing. -- JoeHill ++

Re: [newbie] Newbie Request

2004-01-30 Thread anton
Only problem is, IIRC, writing to NTFS partitions from Linux is still 'at your own risk', whereas at least with FAT32 there's no probs with reading or writing. Yip that's true (people seem to be skim reading my posts...). I must say though, IMHO, you need a damn good reason to be writing to the

Re: [newbie] Newbie Request

2004-01-30 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:34 am, many eyes noted that Bryan Phinney wrote: Never a bad idea to start with XP and then install Mandrake however, Mandrake is much more accepting of XP than the other way around. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer It's been some time since I used XP, but if I

[newbie] Newbie Request

2004-01-29 Thread Web Site Response Address
Hello, I'm trying to ask the newbie group a question, apologies if this isn't the right route to do so. I have a new (literally - no important data on it) computer pre-loaded with Mandrake 9.1 which comes with the discs. I also have Windows XP Home discs which I want to install as a dual

Re: [newbie] Newbie Request

2004-01-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 29 January 2004 14:47, Web Site Response Address wrote: Hello, I'm trying to ask the newbie group a question, apologies if this isn't the right route to do so. I can think of no better route. I have a new (literally - no important data on it) computer pre-loaded with Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Newbie Request

2004-01-29 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 29 January 2004 04:52 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Write some important notes, just in case. I know next to nothing about WindowsXP, but I suspect that it will occupy your entire harddisk without asking. Not bad advice anyway, but Windows XP won't wipe the harddisk without asking, it