hello to all from a Linux curious Windows slave

[Dana]

Hi Mike,

Get thee to Cheapbytes and order Mandrake 7.0 ($1.99 and $5.00 S&H).
You will be amazed at how easy the installation is compared to RH 5.2.

I'm not sure what your HD problem is.  Is it so FUBAR that nothing works?
If so the solution depends on what you want to do with it.

If you want to go 100% Linux then just do a new install of Linux.  That will
blow
away all remants of Windows including what is in the MBR.

If you want to dump Linux and go back to Windows the advice is the same.
Then you can use your Windows install disk to go back to Windows.

If you want both systems, then follow both of the above steps and after
Windows is installed you can re-install Linux with the dual boot option.
The M$ system must be installed first because it does not play well with
others.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike McVey" <mdmcvey at att.net>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 3:56 PM
Subject: kclug - hello to all from a Linux curious Windows slave

> Anyways, now to my first Linux misadventure:  I have just failed to
> install linux on my 40 MB Pentium 75, and found the Red Hat 5.2
> (apollo) distribution I tried to setup quite baffling--after
> partitioning a 2.5 gig hard disk in a way that FDISK cannot undo
> because it can't see or erase the logical drives Linux created, Red
> Hat crashed amid a series of errors the likes of which this Microsoft
> enslaved end-user has never seen before. At least I have  faith that
> errors mean something decipherable, unlike the General Invalid Page
> Exeption Error Fault mumbo jumbo that I frequently encounter, but
> never try to understand, in Windows.
>
> Anyways, I would love to enlist the handholding of any of you users
> who would be happy to help me get started. I would like to get Linux
> on my IBM 350, 40 MB, 2.5 gig, Pentium 75, and then go on to bigger,
> web serving eligible iron pretty soon. I am considering buying a
> circa 1996,  128 MB,  250 (?) Mhz Alpha workstation with a SCSI bus
> and 4 GB to continue my Linux (mis)endeavors, but I hate to buy the
> thing until I feel confident that 1.) I can make it work, 2.) It is
> as good of a Unix system for the money (a few hundred) as I suspect
> it is.
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