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G'day Andrew,
In article <1995Dec17.173936@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>,
   andrewjr@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au wrote:
>Sorry if there is a FAQ for this lying around somewhere, but I've had a quick
>look around and haven't been able to find one. If there is, someone point me 
in
>the right direction ....
Hey, I know what yoou mean, it's not until you get going that you find all the 
FAQ'a and HOWTO's

>
>My System : Intel DX-66 (PCI bus) with 8 Mb ram (may expand this soon though)
>	    1 x 240 meg HDD and 1 x 400 meg HDD (both EIDE)
>	    3 1/2 and 5 1/4 Floppy Drives, 2 X CD-Rom Drive
>
>Current Operating system : Windows 95
>
>
>Some questions ....
>
>1. Can I install Linux under Windows 95 ????  Alternatively, can it happily
>   co-exist with Win 95 ???
>   (I have heard reports that they don't get along well at all)
The only difference between My system and yours is the PCI bus, and I am 
running Linux
and Win 95 and Dos 6.2/win3.11 fine all on one machine, and they both talk 
fine via
ethernet with an othjer Win95 machine.
>2. Is my Hardware sufficient to get a reasonably speedy UNIX / X-Windows 
system
>   set-up ???
Ah... well being a basic newbie myself I can't compare, but I am very pleased 
with the speed of mine.

>3. What is the best way to go ????  ie. which is the best/easiest/most recent
>   shareware Linux setup to get???
I install the Slackware version. I got it with QUE's Using Linux. I would 
reccomend it as the way to go.
The book cost me $75 but the tips and tricks as well as having a second 
opinion
were invaluable. It installed the Kernel ver 1.1.18 and I upgraded to 1.2.13 
Yesterday
without any drama.
>4. How much Hard disk space is required??? Do I need to reformat or 
repartition
>   a hard disk ???(or can  it be run with a minimal installation from 
CD-Rom??)
I use a 250 Meg partition, and it's got 200 Meg on it, but I'm not sure how 
much I can delete yet, as there
is heaps of zips + tars lying around.

>5. Am I making any sense ???
Perfectly