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I just want to do a shoutout to Rami whose recent advocacy article has received quite a bit of attention. Not only a flurry of comments on this blog, but also picked up by say:
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007122801526OSDPHL
Don't really know who linuxtoday.com is, but great to see this kind of thing.
Would be nice if Rami's writing were to inspire some of you others to lend your wisdom to the cause (or some other cause) as well
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007122801526OSDPHL
Don't really know who linuxtoday.com is, but great to see this kind of thing.
Would be nice if Rami's writing were to inspire some of you others to lend your wisdom to the cause (or some other cause) as well
ok guys i managed to use the linux bootable cd and i got it started but i feel very lost to be honest. there is an icon called install. i clicked ont hat and then it asked me about partitions. i have three partitons C, D, E. my windows xp is on the c drive and i would like to put linux also in that partiton would this be a problem? if i chose another partition would it delete the files currently on that partiton or not? i appreciate all the help u guys are giving me thank u once again.
yes, if u try to install it on C drive, it'll erase all the files on that drive. so you need to install it on a new empty drive. im not sure how the auto partitionning works, so i guess u shud wait for other guys to post bout it. but u know what u shud do... create a new partition and install it into that. and the format of the partition shud be 'ext3'.
huston we have a problem 
i mean d and e have valuable stuff that i honestly can bare to lose. as for teh c drive i could get rid of it no probs but i thought we could have a duel operating system thats why. i will put the bootble cd back in and see if there is an option to called create new partion if there is i will create the new partition in the c drive that have the biggest storage space there is on my hard drive and name it linux or sth and let it download there. what do ut hink does this make any sense to u?
i mean d and e have valuable stuff that i honestly can bare to lose. as for teh c drive i could get rid of it no probs but i thought we could have a duel operating system thats why. i will put the bootble cd back in and see if there is an option to called create new partion if there is i will create the new partition in the c drive that have the biggest storage space there is on my hard drive and name it linux or sth and let it download there. what do ut hink does this make any sense to u?
huston we have a problem i mean d and e have valuable stuff that i honestly can bare to lose. as for teh c drive i could get rid of it no probs but i thought we could have a duel operating system thats why. i will put the bootble cd back in and see if there is an option to called create new partion if there is i will create the new partition in the c drive that have the biggest storage space there is on my hard drive and name it linux or sth and let it download there. what do ut hink does this make any sense to u?
i mean d and e have valuable stuff that i honestly can bare to lose. as for teh c drive i could get rid of it no probs but i thought we could have a duel operating system thats why. i will put the bootble cd back in and see if there is an option to called create new partion if there is i will create the new partition in the c drive that have the biggest storage space there is on my hard drive and name it linux or sth and let it download there. what do ut hink does this make any sense to u?
In any case files (especially) media shouldnt cramp up your pc and restrict your ability to install OS'es and/or programs...i always keep those files on externals.
I just want to do a shoutout to Rami whose recent advocacy article has received quite a bit of attention. Not only a flurry of comments on this blog, but also picked up by say:
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007122801526OSDPHL
Don't really know who linuxtoday.com is, but great to see this kind of thing.
Would be nice if Rami's writing were to inspire some of you others to lend your wisdom to the cause (or some other cause) as well
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007122801526OSDPHL
Don't really know who linuxtoday.com is, but great to see this kind of thing.
Would be nice if Rami's writing were to inspire some of you others to lend your wisdom to the cause (or some other cause) as well
But ya I don't know who linuxtoday is, but I have seen that website multiple times while googling stuff, apparently its popular.
Oh and btw googling "howto convert your friend to linux" will get you 4 pages of results linking to me
And ./ is still pending....
bro i am afraid my hard drive is ntfs. what does this mean?? byt he way when the partition bit comes i get three options.
one of them is t use the entire 120 gb
the third one is manual. when i cose the manual i get 3 different names ( theyr really arent my drive names when i have edit partiton, create new partitoon or delete partiton and thats all.
one of them is t use the entire 120 gb
the third one is manual. when i cose the manual i get 3 different names ( theyr really arent my drive names when i have edit partiton, create new partitoon or delete partiton and thats all.
Yes I know, and the third option is probably the way to go. The names are /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3...or something of that sort, right?
Well thats the linux convention of naming things. Whereas in Windows drives are named by letters, in Linux every piece of hardware has a "file" in a folder called /dev, short for "device". So if your laptop has sata drives they will be called sda, sdb...etc. the number after it just denote the partition in a specific drive...anyways lets not get into all these technicalities.
The point is you should figure out which "device" and what is the corresponding drive letter in windows. An easy way to find out is by the size, if all three have different sizes then the sizes denoted in the installer would give you an idea of which is which. If all of the partitions are the same size navigate to /media/ and see the drives in there, each one will have a different name, check the content of the partitions in there.
Anyways check the Windows drive (C) and tell me how much space is used and how much is left. Perhaps we can resize it into a fourth partition.
Well thats the linux convention of naming things. Whereas in Windows drives are named by letters, in Linux every piece of hardware has a "file" in a folder called /dev, short for "device". So if your laptop has sata drives they will be called sda, sdb...etc. the number after it just denote the partition in a specific drive...anyways lets not get into all these technicalities.
The point is you should figure out which "device" and what is the corresponding drive letter in windows. An easy way to find out is by the size, if all three have different sizes then the sizes denoted in the installer would give you an idea of which is which. If all of the partitions are the same size navigate to /media/ and see the drives in there, each one will have a different name, check the content of the partitions in there.
Anyways check the Windows drive (C) and tell me how much space is used and how much is left. Perhaps we can resize it into a fourth partition.
ok bro, the names u mentioned above are all true these are as close a description as can be. the thing is that once i get that step which is 4 out 7 its hard for me to see the contents hence knowing which drive is which. not to mention my hard disk is 120 gb and each partition is diveded to 3 partitons each 37.5 gb.
i just checked my c drive and it has free space of 33gb.
rami i know its getting very late for u, do u mind if i take yr msn adress and add u and i could have a notepad and pen ready tomorrow night when it suits u with all the things i find up while doing the inslation so that i can give u a clearer view, this way ui know exactly all the details and i can answer yr questions regarding my computer and its specficities. thank u and nawaf for sticking with me thru this bec to be honest its really hard and not as easy as u guys make it seem.
