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HELP! HELP! windozzzz
voidmain:
Boy I would like to see someone busted over this little transaction.
kinky:
if your just going to blank your hard drive....
just boot off your linux CD or DVD and you can delete partitions and make new ones there... throw the MS junk away
Calum:
yesidowindows, good for you on deciding to try mandrake! i use mandrake 8.2 and i find it is very satisfactory. not tried 9.0 yet as i heard it is still in beta. anyway i am happy with 8.2.
Re: installing mandrake on your machine, mandrake comes with a GUI partition editor in the installer. Just get a mandrske CD, boot off it and run the installer. You will be able to resize your existing partitions and make space for mandrake. you will easily be able to resize your fuxx0red windows 'system' to a couple of gigabytes (i have heard that xp needs 4 or 5 gigabytes though) and then make another partition or two for linux. my advice is put a fat32 partition about 2 or 3 gigs in size at the end of your drive so you can easily share files between the 2 systems if you want, and also "if" you ever need to reinstall windows, you can leave this extra partition untouched.
Calum:
btw, there are a few ways to get linux other than downloading, get one mail order for not much more money than cost. here are a couple i snitted out for you at random:
http://bitbone.de/storefront/catalog/default.php
this is a version of Debian for about 50 euros
oh,
http://www.liniso.de/shop.php?artikel=65#65
this one has mandrake 9 for 9 euros, debian for 15 euros and several others including gentoo linux, freeBSD and OpenBSD.
http://www.rootshop.de/produkte/software/
this one will allow you to get the latest red hat, mandrake, debian, slackware, freebsd et cetera. for red hat and mandrake, the price seems to be 8 euros for 3 CDs.
Doctor V:
quote:Originally posted by yesidowindows:
ok here goes . i have a pentium 4 ,128 megs of ram a 20 gig hd and a 1.3 gig processor (i think) i let a supposed friend "borrow" my computer and it seems he installed windows xp pro (not a "legal" version) I have the disk for this "version" of xp pro but i cannot download service packs because of the problem with how it was acquired .i don't have a disk to reinstall windows me( which i was not fond of anyway) and my puter is not a commercial brand.I can't format or use f-disk or boot to DOS i want to go linux (mandrake 9.0?) i have tried to download it but this whole ISO thing has me stumped. but i am so familiar with windows i dont know if i can handle it and i am worried that it won't have all the stuff i can get with windows. but first , i want to write zeros to the drive and reformat. but i can't ! I have tried everything and I can't boot to DOS i am stuck!!!?%$^$%&&
he also converted my hd to NTFS so i am bumming and i hate it and i desperately need help!hope y'all are feeling generous especially since i am new. i will be waiting anxiously for some good news if there is any.
:mad:
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Your specks are more than enough for Linux. Mandrake or red hat. Your comp. won't boot? Get a floppy disy, and get format fdisk and command.com on them. You can download those programs, just do a web search. You can boot from that and format the hard drive. Boot from A, Format C...now your all set. You could probably boot from your Linux disk after you have it though. ISO is really easy. Just download the ISO image files first. Then open up your CD burning software. It *should* have an option for burning ISO images. Use that. If you can't find any ISO option, just tell us what CD burning software you are using, someone here should be able to tell you how. Its pretty straightforeward. And yes, you can get all the stuff you can with windows on Linux. Just tell us what you are worried about/can't get working, I'm sure someone will tell you how. It takes a bit to get used to, thats all. :cool: The future is bright.
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