From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 5014 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2000 17:21:51 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Jan 2000 17:21:51 -0000 Received: from afb.net (w171.z208036095.nyc-ny.dsl.cnc.net [208.36.95.171]) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA21930 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:21:50 -0500 Received: from helen by afb.net (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id MAA26917; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:30:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:30:49 -0500 (EST) From: Janina Sajka 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, 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 >