hello to all from a Linux curious Windows slave

[Nicoya Helm]

I think RH 6.0 has lets you choose between using fdisk, diskdruid and
perhaps somethings else (can't remember), but in my experience diskdruid
says "Ha! I spit on ze silly fdisk errors you received" and let's you do
exactly what you want.  I've gotten strong recommendations for Partition
Magic from a couple people, but never had much luck with it myself.  Anybody
else?

I'm sure there are lots of extra copies of RH6.0 floating around since the
Bartle Hall shindig (I've got a spare if you need one).  You might try the
Linux Doc Project for further info first, tho...

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition.html

~~~Nicoya...

|-----Original Message-----
|From: owner-kclug at marauder.transwarp.net
|[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.transwarp.net]On Behalf Of Mike McVey
|Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 9:56 PM
|To: kclug at kclug.org
|Subject: kclug - hello to all from a Linux curious Windows slave
|
|
|Dear KCLUG,
|
|I have just joined your mailing list hoping to get in touch with
|linux users in the KC area who enjoy educating newcomers to this OS.
|
|As a grad. student preparing to teach high school English, I look on
|my pc- technician background and aspirations to gain greater
|technical mastery of the technology and uses of the internet as
|maybe, hopefully, somehow lucrative in light of the low pay I
|anticipate in my main career. In addition, I love the power of the
|internet to subvert the corporate dominance of other realms of public
|discourse, such as newspapers and television, and would like to feel
|a part of this "information revolution" in a bigger way then by
|lining the pockets of Amazon.com.
|
|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.
|
|My ultmate Linux/Unix aspirations are as follows:  to be able to
|implement a least one of the various content-rich, non profit or
|tastefully profitable, web-based online communities (none of which
|are computer related) that I have imagined creating in a manner that
|is affordable and sustainable.
|
|OK, now that I have told you about myself, I look forward to hearing
|about you all. I am curious just what kind of computing Linux folk
|here do.
|
|Good Day!
|
|Mike McVey
|
|Kansas City
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