| | Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 10 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 10 | Yes i have win xp yes i know i need unix and thats what i am gonna do... Should i just (partishion) my hd or should i jsut get a new one to add unix too... <img border="0" alt="[!]" title="" src="graemlins/!.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[?]" title="" src="graemlins/question.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[!]" title="" src="graemlins/!.gif" /> If i need to partishion it how do i go about doing it any sugestions will be appreshiated. <img border="0" alt="[[censored]]" title="" src="graemlins/[censored].gif" /> | | | |
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| | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 71 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 71 | i dont think that would work, what you CAN do is partition it 
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| | | | | Joined: May 2002 Posts: 70 UGN Poser | | UGN Poser Joined: May 2002 Posts: 70 | If you have an extra hard drive I'd put *nix on it. But if you don't have another one. Don't bother getting another one. Have you searched on google on for info on how to partition???? Different distros have different ways of partitioning, soooo yeah...here, look: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...artitioning+howto&btnG=Google+Search
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 562 UGN Supporter | | UGN Supporter Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 562 | Just start with redhat or mandrake to learn use thier installation partition tools. I have installed Linux about 30 times trying to get it right. Never did I lose any data in windows. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 815 nobody | | nobody Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 815 | you might want to try and create a new partition with DOS fdisk first, before you do it, defrag and clean up your disk, see how much space you have and resize that partition accordingly. If you do it right you might be able to repartition the drive with no data loss. Now that you have the drive split into 2, go ahead and install, format and do whatever you need to the 2nd partition. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 10 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 10 | YA, Thanks for your input i meet SilentRage on irc last night... he said to just partishion it... when you put in the slackware cd it has that for an instalation option) | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 71 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 71 |
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,203 Likes: 11 Community Owner | | Community Owner Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,203 Likes: 11 | Ya know, they make partition magic for kids just like you... I'm taking it that you have kazaa, so go get it, defrag, run it, repartition install your distro, you're set.
BTW, I'm running XP Pro SP1 on this box... | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 860 Likes: 1 Der �belt�ter | | Der �belt�ter Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 860 Likes: 1 | Haha...I'm sorry, but I like CK correcting spelling. I hate it when people misspell left and right.  | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,273 DollarDNS Owner | | DollarDNS Owner Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,273 | I think it's a waste of time, but I did find it hilarious that CK had to correct him TWICE. heh | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,203 Likes: 11 Community Owner | | Community Owner Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,203 Likes: 11 | Yes, it was quite funny... | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 71 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 71 | you now me, just tring too ad a litle humore to the board
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 10 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 10 | lol, thanks cryto for correcting me but i cant spell for [censored] ) i got kazza and ill loook fotr that thing u said | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,136 UGN Elite Poster | | UGN Elite Poster Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,136 | | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 197 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 197 | /me thinks this isn't a good idea
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,203 Likes: 11 Community Owner | | Community Owner Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,203 Likes: 11 | BTW, its OS', not OS'S... | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,136 UGN Elite Poster | | UGN Elite Poster Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,136 | Actually, it would be OSes. That's the plural. OS' is the plural possessive form of OS. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 122 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 122 | | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,203 Likes: 11 Community Owner | | Community Owner Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,203 Likes: 11 | Originally posted by pergesu:
Actually, it would be OSes. That's the plural. OS' is the plural possessive form of OS. STFU! lol... I still prefer Operating System's but thats just cas I tend to not like abbreviations... | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 860 Likes: 1 Der �belt�ter | | Der �belt�ter Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 860 Likes: 1 | Operating System's? Operating System's what? Does your Operating System own something? | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,203 Likes: 11 Community Owner | | Community Owner Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,203 Likes: 11 | It owns your mothers soul mang! | | | | | Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 730 UGN Supporter | | UGN Supporter Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 730 |
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| | | | | Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 274 Likes: 1 UGN Supporter | | UGN Supporter Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 274 Likes: 1 | All this because people don't use spellchecker... | | | | | Joined: Mar 1983 Posts: 55 UGN Elder | | UGN Elder Joined: Mar 1983 Posts: 55 | I also suggest looking into boot magic, its a nice gui boot prompt which allows you to chose which partation to boot from. And yes, use partation magic instead of fdisk, for people who don't know how to use fdisk they can totally [censored] over the computers. And you don't really want to have to send it back to the company to have them fix it? do you?
If you have some spare cash, i suggest that you just go out and find an old computer you can install it on. I currently have linux installed on a p200 with 84 meg of ram. It works wonderfully in the command shell. and it cost me 100 bux to put it together. And i can use both of my machines at one time.
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 624 UGN GFX Whore | | UGN GFX Whore Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 624 | well i think you should consider your HDD space.
it's maybe a good idea to make a partiotion and run unix there. Or get another one man.
i think what you should wory about is the Installation, it usually makes problems.
+^Born Intelligence | | | | | Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 10 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 10 | ya i got a 100ghd and 3g ram | | | | | Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 624 UGN GFX Whore | | UGN GFX Whore Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 624 | than you have enough space, make a partition and run *nix in one of them, so you'll have to os's on 1 hd, definitely make a partition, you've got enough space.
But as i said before, what you really need to wory about is the installation if you are a newbie to *nix. Now let's not make a big deal out of this, but a lots of people have problems during installation, it all depends of your comp.
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