Re: Instructions for installing Slackware

[Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net>]

dOn Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Leslie Fairall wrote:

> Can ghost be run under dos? Thanks.
> 
Absolutely. See my long note to Tommy about this.

Realize that you're going to need someplace to put the results, though --
like a second (or third) partition on your hard drive. Or better still,
like to a Jazz drive. Or you can burn a CD ROM.

All of this costs money, of course. The Ghost costs, the Jazz drive or the
CD ROM burner costs, etc. You have to decide whether it's worth the
cost. I think your decision should depend on how important your current
setup is. If you don't have a lot of data that's important to you on your
computer, and if you feel comfortable about reinstalling everything should
you lose it, and if you have the time to deal with all that -- well, then
don't worry about Ghost and Jazz drives.

If, however, you have a lot of data that's important, or you don't have
much time because you work and/or go to grad school or something -- then
you're very strongly advised to get a good backup somehow. Ghost is one
way. There are others.

Now, if you don't know how to reinstall DOS -- maybe you should start
there before tackling Linux. It's much simpler. That's another story
entirely.