From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 11093 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2000 17:30:32 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Jan 2000 17:30:32 -0000 Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA22677 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:30:30 -0500 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA14871 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:25:50 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAkAa4_C; Tue Jan 25 10:25:41 2000 Received: from localhost (fairall@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA16576 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:30:17 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: usr06.primenet.com: fairall owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:30:16 -0500 (EST) From: Leslie Fairall To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Instructions for installing Slackware In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ***** ************************************************** > > "Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It's > > just very particular about who it makes friends with." > > > > --- > > Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@redhat.com > > Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux > > Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux > > To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@redhat.com > > with subject line: unsubscribe > > > > --- > Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@redhat.com > Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux > Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux > To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@redhat.com > with subject line: unsubscribe > > ***** ************************************************** "Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It's just very particular about who it makes friends with."