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It's 20 Jul 97  14:56,
We'll return to robert@zen.humbug.org.au and All's
discussion of Newbie would like to start

 :  lg> with about 900MB spare HD space. I've looked around Linux sites a fair
 :  lg> bit, but their is still some things which I don't understand.
 :  lg> Firstly, do I need to partition my Hard Drive if I want to run Windows
 :  lg> 95 as well as Linux?

 ro> : Not necessarily, but _highly_ reccommended.

 ro> I agree entirely.

:-)  This is the only way I'd do it. :-)

 ro> : An easier way is to use Partition Magic to resize your Win 95
 ro> partition : on the fly. :-)

 ro> FIPS is stable and free, and does the job nicely.  It is on  pretty
 ro> much every Linux cd under dos utils now.  Recent versions of fips
 ro> handle vfat.

PM is a bit more versatile, but FIPS does the job, and is often supplied
with Linux. :-)  BTW, does FIPS handle FAT32 yet?  That would complete
it. :-)

 ro> : Ask around, there are subtle differences between them.  Red Hat is
 ro> good, : and I've heard good things about Debian also.

 ro> I've tried Slackware, Rh and Debian in that order and prefer Debian
 ro> for a number of reasons.  The 'on the fly' ungrades using dselect from
 ro> an ftp site or Cd are nice.  someone said RH might have a similar
 ro> feature now, but I'm not sure.

RH has RPM which sounds interesting.  I'm about to do some new RH
installs, so I'll let you know in a month or so. :-)

 :  lg> Thirdly, where can I get lots of newbie information?

 ro> : On the Net! :-)

 ro> Yep, and in local user groups (face to face communication makes it
 ro> easier to solve alot of problems).

True.  I find the Net the most convenient. :-)

 ro> There : should also be online Linux guides to download.

 ro> http://www.linux.org

:-)

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