On Tuesday 11 November 2003 11:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
> HaywireMac wrote:
> >On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:06:38 +
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> >John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> >>First let us say it's OK to be new to the world of Linux, we all were
> >>new once.
> >
> >Well, except of course Linu
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Hi Paul,
On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 2:02:17 AM PST, you wrote:
> for advice try the win2linux site at http://win2linux.net/docs.html
Thanks Paul...and everyone else as well for your helpful suggestions!
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HaywireMac wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:06:38 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
First let us say it's OK to be new to the world of Linux, we all were
new once.
Well, except of course Linus Torvalds, he was never new ;-)
I guess he's just like the Delphic oracle, h
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:06:38 +
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> First let us say it's OK to be new to the world of Linux, we all were
> new once.
Well, except of course Linus Torvalds, he was never new ;-)
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On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 02:27, Melissa Reese wrote:
> One thing I know will take a little getting used to is the different
> type of nomenclature used in Linux.
>
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Hello Melissa,
for advice try the win2linux site at http://win2linux.net/docs.html
They explain (briefly) basi
On Monday 10 November 2003 08:55 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> On Monday 10 November 2003 07:27 pm, Melissa Reese wrote:
> > One thing I know will take a little getting used to is the different
> > type of nomenclature used in Linux.
> >
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> Melissa:
> The 9.1 Manuals are availa
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Melissa Reese wrote:
>> While I'm pretty handy with digging around various bits of Windows,
>> "removing partitions" is not a procedure I'm familiar with. Can
>> anyone offer me a little "step by step" for this?
>
>
>
>> Is there some literature I can read up on beforehand t
On Monday 10 November 2003 07:27 pm, Melissa Reese wrote:
>
> One thing I know will take a little getting used to is the different
> type of nomenclature used in Linux.
>
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> Melissa
Melissa:
The 9.1 Manuals are available online. While they aren't exactly "The
Definitive Guide to Absolutely
On Monday 10 Nov 2003 11:33 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> On Monday 10 November 2003 04:41 pm, Melissa Reese wrote:
> > Is there some literature I can read up on beforehand that explains how
> > I might want to partition the drive?
>
> Here is a quick tutorial about partitions under Linux.
and also:
When you go to install Linux, it will ask you which drive and you will
have the opportunity to set up the required swap file as well as the Linux
file system. The installer routine will format everything as you request.
I will leave it to others to tell you WHICH specification to use for
determinin
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Hi Me,
On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 1:41:09 PM PST, I wrote:
> While I'm pretty handy with digging around various bits of Windows,
> "removing partitions" is not a procedure I'm familiar with. Can
> anyone offer me a little "step by step" for thi
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Hi Bryan,
On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 1:07:54 PM PST, you wrote:
> Just remove all the partitions from the 20GB drive. That will leave
> the drive completely blank with no drive letters or partition
> information saved to the drive.
While I'm p
On Monday 10 November 2003 04:02 pm, Melissa Reese wrote:
> Here's my essential question of the moment...
>
> I'm finished copying over all the files I want to save from the old
> drive to the new one, and I'm ready to clear the old drive in
> preparation for my Mandrake installation. I've been to
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Hello,
This is my first post to this list (I've been lurking for a few
days...it sure is a busy list! :-)).
After trying to figure out if my assorted bits of hardware can be
expected to "play nicely" with a fresh Linux distribution
installation, I've
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