03-26-2005, 02:30 PM
i tried it out, its nice
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03-26-2005, 02:30 PM
i tried it out, its nice
03-26-2005, 03:49 PM
Thanks for he comments.
I see you are a linux lover. I had a vist from a guy in our local Radio Club yesterday who uses nothing else but Linux, and will not ever try a Windows Emulator. So are you running QB with Linux and evern FB He promises to drop around a Linux boot up disk he claims I can run without upsetting Win XP, is that true. If so perhaps it would be safer for me to go online usung it, as they do not appear to go around to spreading Viruses with Linix!! Gordon
03-28-2005, 09:08 PM
Quote:....Viruses with Linix!!Whats linix :lol:. Anyway, yeah, if you dont wanna install a bootloader like LILO or GRUB then you can make a boot floppy which will boot linux everytime you put that in and boot into linux. You dont need to actually upset WinXP to run linux. Just freeup a partition or stick in an old HD and install Linux on it. To uninstall its as simple as booting with the XP start up disk and issuing: fdisk /mbr
03-28-2005, 10:02 PM
I am scared **** or partitioning my drive with the he stuff already on it, but I will look into how to use a floppy boot disk, or perhaps I could create a CD to boot up. I was amazed to hear there must be some 30 verisons of Linux developed, many contain all the software needed like MS Office 2000 etc, but at my count ther are only some 6 versions of wonderfull Windows.
The guy turned up with some kind of linus supposed to work with Windows in the same window and desktop, except it had no instuctions which came in a magazine. I tried to install something, and finished up having to restore a backup!!! Gordon
03-30-2005, 01:34 AM
google for cooperative linux. Download and install it. If you wanna try out linux use a live distro like knoppix. It runs off the CD. No need to install anything on the harddisk. And I share your concern regarding installating linux on your harddrive with windows and other stuff already in place. I personally would recommend installing linux on a PHYSICALLY separate harddisk. And stay away from FC3. It has some VERY weird installation issues. (That must sound weird coming from a redhatter :lol
03-30-2005, 08:46 AM
Quote:[...] some 30 verisons of Linux developed, many contain all the software needed like MS Office 2000 etc, [...] An MS product on Linux? Maybe you are thinking OpenOffice or soemthing of the like. Linux would never have MSOffice. Just needed to point that out
03-30-2005, 12:06 PM
Thanks for your advice. I will email these posts onto a couple of guys in the Radio Club who use Linux to see what hey can do to help. Here is a list of all the BUMFF on the CD given to me, copied from the INDEX.HTML with the links. I have not yet fathomed out how to copy and paste any images into these posts, apart form plain TEXT . One day I might get another 40 Gig hard drive to install Linux, because this one has a tendency to crash if it needs Defraging at all, even though I only use about 10 Gig of it.
Gordon Visit the web site Subscribe online Magazine Distros Games Help Office System Essentials Magazine Mono TheGimp Distros CoLinux Games AlienPool Freebooters Project:Starfighter Help Tutorials Office OpenOffice.org System ConKolivasKernelPatchset Distcleaner Gimp-print Ndiswrapper PortableOpenSSH Essentials Allegro ALSA Avifile CheckInstall CSV GLib glibc GTK gtkmm Guile Kernel lesstif libESMTP libmcrypt Libsigc libstdC++3 libXML Mesa ncurses OggVorbis RAWRITE SDL SmartBootManager SVGAlib
04-01-2005, 05:52 AM
ehhhmmm :-? you guys are kinda gettin of subject.
Any way i got this far cept it does funny things when you try the delete thingie Code: DECLARE SUB delete () PS: Im tryin to figure this out without lookin at another program. Kinda somthing that helps me get better at programming.
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Tied to the darkness. Soon to be completely eclipsed. There is so very much to learn... You understand so little. A meaningless effort. One who knows nothing can understand nothing. -Ansem Bringer of darkness and creator of the heartless
05-15-2005, 01:56 PM
My Linux Lover friend came around again yesterday with a DVD and covering Linux magazine by some Nerds. The DVD contains Knoppix 3.4, Slackware 10.0, Gentoo 2004.1, Arch Linux 0.6 Widgit Edition, Dyne : Bolic 1.3, Feather 0.5.3. All very confusing, especially at much of it in German!
They appear to claim you only need to create a CD containing the contents of any of the folders, such as Knoppix, and lo and behold if you change your boot-up CMOS to boot-up on CD, it will open running Linux. Needless to say it does not work and reverts to Windows XP installed, because the Knoppix stuff appears to contain no necessary System files for start-up The do say something a bout using a ISO below while running Linux, except I cannot even get Linux to run!! Gordon Burning ISO images You can create the full CD discs by burning the appropriate ISO file to a blank CD in a CD writer. Under Linux you can find out what your writer is referred by running cdrecord -scanbus This will then indicate the three figure code such as 0.1.0 or 0,2,3 You can use this to point to the correct device. Cdrecord dev=n,n,n /path/to/image.iso an actual example would be drecord dev=0,0,0/mnt/cdrom/kboppix34.iso |
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