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Swiss Mercenary BlabberMouth, the Next Generation. Posts: 1461 From: All the way from the land of Chocolate, Cheese and Cuckoo Clocks. Registered: Feb 2000	posted January 22, 2001 06:48 All right my geeky AY2K friends out there, I have a simple question for you. I have just purchased a new HDD for my Compaq portable and am installing Win2K Server on it (I know, I know, but most D&D programs are only run on Wintel platforms and I use it for gaming). The HDD is 10GB and I wanted to know how much space I should allocate for the Linux partition that I want to install on it? Thanks. IP: Logged
supaboy SuperBlabberMouth! Posts: 1242 From: Columbia, SC, USA Registered: Jan 2000	posted January 22, 2001 09:40 A couple GB ought to do it if you're looking to run Linux as a secondary OS. You can have a usable Linux install in a couple hundred megs with Gnome or KDE, Netscape, and plenty of other apps if you leave out the compiler and only install from binary packages. IP: Logged
Swiss Mercenary BlabberMouth, the Next Generation. Posts: 1461 From: All the way from the land of Chocolate, Cheese and Cuckoo Clocks. Registered: Feb 2000	posted January 22, 2001 10:05 Couple of Gigs great, will do. Now the next question, which is the best release of Linux to install <Starts running for his nuclear bunker as he suddenly realises what he has asked!> IP: Logged
Migrant Programmer Alpha Geek Posts: 255 From: Waterloo, Canada Registered: Jan 2000	posted January 22, 2001 14:02 Depends on what you want to do, what your hardware is (since it's a laptop, there may be weird stuff), how experienced you are with Unix-style OSes and with computers in general, whether you want 'official' support and manual or not, etc.. The right tool for the job =) If you can give info on the above, we can help you choose a distro to start with. IP: Logged
supaboy SuperBlabberMouth! Posts: 1242 From: Columbia, SC, USA Registered: Jan 2000	posted January 23, 2001 08:19 There's also VMware, a program which virtualizes an x86 processor. You can use it to run Linux under Windows or Windows under Linux. I've heard good things about it, but it costs money. There's also Plex86, which is an open-source x86 virutalizer that runs under Linux and NetBSD. It's capable of running NT 4 at least. Not that you're going to go back and repartition your hard drive again, heh heh! IP: Logged
Swiss Mercenary BlabberMouth, the Next Generation. Posts: 1461 From: All the way from the land of Chocolate, Cheese and Cuckoo Clocks. Registered: Feb 2000	posted January 24, 2001 04:17 Sorry to get back so late, was ill yesterday. Hardware - Compaq Presario 1630, Pentium II, 64M (upgrading to 128M) memory. I have been working with computers for over 20 years, so I do know what a command line is. I have had very little experience working with Unix, but I do know what 'ls' does. IP: Logged
supaboy SuperBlabberMouth! Posts: 1242 From: Columbia, SC, USA Registered: Jan 2000	posted January 24, 2001 08:19 In that case, check out Linux from Scratch. Linux isn't really different in concept from other operating systems, so you can put it together exactly the way you want with the knowledge you've already got. Distros? We don' need no steenkin' distros! IP: Logged

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