Re: Instructions for installing Slackware

[Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net>]

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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