From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 14362 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2000 03:58:09 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Jan 2000 03:58:09 -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 WAA28887 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 22:58:08 -0500 Received: from helen by afb.net (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id XAA02053; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 23:07:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 23:07:39 -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: 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.