new to linux, where to begin

[Jared Stofflett]

Use partition magic to downsize one partition, and leave the rest
unalocated. 

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From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Sina Bahram
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 8:22 PM
To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
Subject: RE: new to linux, where to begin

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.

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Igor Gueths
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 6:46 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: new to linux, where to begin


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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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