New subject: [SLE] Re: Linux

6 Jun 2002


      Hi;
 Sorry, This was a reply to a friend who is wanting to install linux for the
 first time. Somehow it was sent to the list as well.

On Thursday 06 June 2002 22:00, Darren Harmon wrote:
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Hi;
Great news.
SuSE 8 (pronounced Soozza) is very cleaver at installing along side
Windows. You hard drive must not be formatted with NTFS or it won't work
(you will have to repartition manually, perhaps sometime in the future
Microsoft will release the specs for NTFS).
If you get the professional version you get the best manuals available
for any linux distro (and better than most books).
You will need several gigabytes of space on your hard drive (you get
loads of stuff including some games... sorry, I mean stress testing
programs:-) YaST will shrink your Windows partition (so defrag Windows
before hand so move all of the free space into one place) and, make 3 new
partitions from this new space, a boot partition, a swap partition (like
a swap file in Windows but using a whole partition instead) and the root
partition (you can have more, it's all in the manual, but for now it's
best to keep it simple). Note, the purpose for the boot partition is that
the BIOS cannot boot a PC from anything on the hard drive past a certain
place (1024 cylinder) so the boot partition needs to be near the start of
the drive. Do you know about primary and logical partitions? Have a look
around the net. If you know the basics of hard drive structure then you
will have an advantage.
I had some trouble connecting to the web after I installed SuSE 8. I
fixed it but if you have any problems e-mail me, or subscribe to on of
the many linux newsgroups. Try alt.os.linux.suse or, the mailing list
suse-linux-e@suse.com (both of which I'm a member and are very helpful,
the mailing list is run by SuSE and you can subscribe from the support
section of their site. Warning, the list gets you about 100 e-mails per
day. Set up a filter on your e-mail program to filter the list post into
a different directory).
Do you have an internal modem. Is it a win-modem. You may have trouble
(although this might have been fixed. There is a lot of old sites around
still).
Have a play around, if you get stuck ask. The best support is the mailing
list or newsgroup. The second best support is me:-) The third is SuSE
themselves (you get 90 days free support with the pro version).
...
P.S.  Soon to join the penguin brigade...
Yes I have a penguin cuddly toy (I have two, a big one and a smaller
one). The linux penguin is called Tux.
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Darren Harmon
http://www.darrenharmon1.uklinux.net

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