Re: Instructions for installing Slackware

[Leslie Fairall <fairall@primenet.com>]

Hi Janina:

I'm not real familiar with this ghost thing. Can you explain how it
works? By the way, I have Windows 95b on my hd, but my computer boots up
in dos, if this is helpful information. My drives are already petioned,
but on the dos side, I think. Guess I'll have to repetion it again?



On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Hi, Leslie:
> 
> Your concerns are well founded, but they needn't prevent you from moving
> forward.
> 
> The most important thing is to make sure you have a good backup before you
> start deploying a second OS on your HD. Idealy, this should be a backup of
> the partition you want to protect, rather than the entire HD. This way,
> you can restore, if need be, to a particular partition--which may even be
> of a different size--without losing something else where on the hd. I use
> Ghost for this--and I think it's now available as a consumer product from
> Symantec.
> 
> PS: Ghost works very very well for this--but you also need to have
> something like a Jaz drive that will hold a large file -- mine now
> approach 1 Gb -- in one image file.
> 
> 2.) You will need to decide on a good partitioning scheme for your hd and
> repartition the system. On the Windows side, a product like Power Quest's
> Partition Magic is accessible and very easy to use. Most importantly, it's
> reliable. I trust it so much I used it to resize a FAT partition on a
> notebook, while using battery power just the other day.
> 
> 3.) Once you've accomplished these two tasks, you can install and
> reinstall without threatening your working partitions. You won't even need
> a boot manager, necessarily, to do this.
> 
> 
> 				Janina Sajka, Director
> 				Information Systems Research & Development
> 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> 
> janina@afb.net
> 
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Leslie Fairall wrote:
> 
> > I am looking for instructions for installing Slackware. I'm not sure which
> > version, because I received it in September. I have a sighted friend who
> > is willing to help, but since I've never done this before, I am paranoid
> > about messing up my computer. The things I need to do after I install it are:
> > 
> > 1. Figure out when to install brltty
> > 2. instructions for setting up a PPP connection
> > 3. instructions for setting up realaudio.
> > 4. be able to set up a dual boot between dos and linux.
> > 
> > Any suggestions whatsoever would be very appreciated. Thanks.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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