On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 12:53 pm, Adam Bower wrote:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:58:53AM +0100, Kelly Ash wrote:
OK, I've read...re-read...checked...double and triple checked...read yet again..and have outrun the men in the little white coats with butterfly nets *g*
hehe, good plan. If you keep running for long enough and far enough the men in the white coats find it hard to keep up, this is why i have moved about 6 times in 3 years ;)
Now, I think I'm well into information overload. So much so that I can hardly remember what I read or looked into on the net at the beginning. Much of what I've run into has been fairly basic which was extremely helpful in my case! But...there are many references to things having to do with Linux that I really have no idea what they're talking about and it starts becoming frustrating.
oh some of the references never make any sense, that you have found some that are helpful is a good sign...
So, I'm thinking of backing off for a day or two and then doing a quick run-through of the info I have, and then finally installing on Saturday. I d just like to know if I'm going about this install the right way or should I delve even deeper into this foreign world *g* before even attempting the install?? I hope the answer is no, as I said, everything is starting to blur together.
Installing should not be too scary or such a big problem, especially as you have a new drive to put linux onto, there is very very little chance of dataloss etc. what OS are you going to dual boot Linux with? Windows NT/2000/9x?
Also if you do find it scary can you not make one of the Alug meetings where somebody will quite happily install (well try ;)) linux for you... If not where in the world are you as somebody could perhaps come and help you in person. (btw i just had a thought, could we not offer some kind of telephone helpline to people who are stuck 50% of the way through an install?)
Good idea mail me off list for a contact number if you are really nervous or wait untill the next meeting. Where are you located?
I've backed up everything I can think of to back up as I've had to completely re-install my system twice in a years time and wouldn't look kindly to having to do it again.
Very good idea, at least if you do kill everything you can experiment a bit more (not that you should be able to kill everything, but assuming the worst case scenario is a good plan)
I've another question...will Mandrake show me the drive sizes so I know the difference between hda and hdb? The drive I have solely for Linux is 20GB, completely empty and as of this moment, unpartitioned.
No problem here Mandrake has a very good prartitioning tool called diskdrake that rocks bigtime. Diskdrake is one of the first things you will encounter with the install bbut you do have the option of using fdisk if you want to. Its all very graphical and pretty straight forward (no fafing about with arcane tools like fdisk although fdisk does have it's place).
It should do although I have no experience with Mandrake,
Call yourself a sysadmin with no experience with of the best distro </me puts on flame proof suit>. :-)
perhaps a Mandrake user (BJ) could enlighten us?
Do you feel enlightend? No? Didn't think you would somehow. :-)