[NTLUG:Discuss] Installation learning curve

[Allen Meyers]

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From: "david" <david at rawcreations.net>
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Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Installation learning curve


> Allen Meyers wrote:
>> >From my perspective the decisions required in a linux arena are made
>> extremely difficult simply because MS capitalized on my being lazy and 
>> they
>> created what I term another windows dummie.
>> So I know for sure I must shrink the windows partition, then possibly 
>> after
>> resizing go to BIOS to make certain my boot sequence is correct.
>> The decisions I mentioned begin at this point.
>> Is there an advantage to installation without partitioning?
>> If partitioning is the decision does one need more then 1 if one has in
>> excess of 1GB of RAM
>> Finally is colinux a viable option over partitioning and all of this from
>> the perspective of a new user.
>>
>> Allen
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> LiveCD versions are a great way to try many different distros before
> committing.
> As for partitioning I go with: 5-10G /, 2G swap (drive space is cheap
> why not use it)
> and the remaining free space can be allotted to /home. I prefer to
> divide the remaider like this:
> 2/3 goes to /home and the final 1/3 to /tars. After downloading and
> installing new programs I move
> the tar file to the /tars space. In the unlikely event I have to
> reinstall my OS I can choose not to
> reformat /home and /tars and all my data will be there when I am back up
> and all the programs I
> previously downloaded are right there for reinstall. This of course is
> just my way of preparing for
> disaster recovery.
>
> Also you might want to have a look at Wubi. It is Ubuntu that installs
> into Windows, no partitioning
> required. Some users on one of the forums I frequent report great success.
> http://wubi-installer.org/

David

With all the research I have done I have no idea how I missed the 
wubi-installer. Thank you I am downloading now and shall test drive. I only 
have a 40 G HD, but I should be able to satisfy my curiousity

Allen
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