new to linux, where to begin

[Stephen Clower]

I've got Slackware 9.1 and Windows 2000 Professional happily coexisting on a Dell Latitude C600 laptop. So, there's really no need to wipe Windows so long as you can partition off part of your hard drive for Linux.


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On 5/12/2004 at 8:21 PM Sina Bahram wrote:

>I would disagree about having to whipe windows before installing linux and
>then reinstalling windows. I have successfully done it the other way...just
>installed linux on top...it's been a while though, but I did it with Redhat
>7.3, 8, and 9. I installed fedora on another box, which I whiped; however,
>I
>do have friends who have done the same with Fedora as well. I also believe
>there are people on here, but I'm not sure, whom I thought installed either
>Mandrake or Slackware without having to whipe windows.
>
>Take care,
>Sina
>
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>electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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>On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 06:30:29PM -0400, Chris Westbrook wrote:
>> I am a computer science student home for the summer and thought maybe 
>> I'd
>> get into linux.  I currently have a laptop running windows xp pro.  is
>it 
>> possible to run two operating systems on the same machine or should I
>try 
>> to get an old machine somewhere.
>
>Actually, it is in fact possible to boot the 2 operating systems. However,
>there are 2 things to consider. Do you have unallocated space on your disk,
>as in no filesystem? If not and windows 
>is hogging the entire disk, you're going to have to install Linux and
>re-install windows. Based on my personal experience, it is easiest to
>create
>a partition for windows using the Dos version 
>of Fdisk, and then install Linux after the windows partition.
>  also, I really don't know much about 
>> linux at all.  What distribution should I get.  I currently have a 
>> braille
>> note, and I've heard of brltty, but can I have speech as well?  Any help 
>> would be appreciated.
>
>In terms of what distribution to get, that really is dependent on personal
>preference i.e., do you prefer compiling from source over pre-built binary
>packages? If you like compiling things 
>from source, perhaps Slackware is the better choice. However, if you like
>packages there are different distributions you can look at i.e., Fedora and
>Debian are the 2 that come to mind. I 
>believe Brltty does support the Braillenote display, however I am not
>entirely sure on that. 
>> 
>> 
>> Chris Westbrook
>> msn or email: westbc at clw19.com
>> aol screen name: westbrookc19
>> 
>> 
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