[SLE] Windows has let me down (for the last time)

From: Thinker (thinker_at_thoughtprogress.com)
Date: 11/24/03

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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:53:03 -0500

    I windows errors everyday with clients. I had never had anything major
    happen to my Win2K machine at home, until today. When I walked into my
    office last night, I noticed that my Windows machine was off. Strange,
    considering I did not turn it off before I left. Since I have been
    trying to boot it last night and this morning, I have seen various blue
    screens ranging from "PageFault_in_NON_PAGED_AREA" to unable to load
    "\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\update.sys".

    I have been messing around with Linux off and on for the past year or
    so. I have installed several versions of Mandrake, Debian, Red Hat, and
    SuSE (both purchased and FTP). I have pretty much decided on SuSE to
    replace Windows.

    Questions: As I am a little short on cash, the plan is to install SuSE
    9.0 via ftp until I can afford to purchase it (may be 9.1 by then:-)).
    The windows machine that has died luckily (I think) had all the major
    info spread out across various drives. One drive for music, one drive
    for family photos, one drive for old document files, etc. There are 5
    Hard Drives in the machine. I am going to unplug all of the old drives
    out and put two new ones (2 x 6.5 GB Western Digital ATA Hard Drives) in
    to install SuSE (any advice on partitioning schemes would be
    appreciated).

    After I get SuSE set up the way I want it, I plan to reconnect the old
    drives in order to have access to my data. All of these Drives were
    formatted NTFS. Will this be an issue?

    I am also using a Kingston Digital Media Flash Card reader for my
    digital camera. It connects to the machine via parallel port. Should
    have it connected when I install SuSE or should I unplug it and connect
    it post installation?

    Is there anything else I need to take into consideration before I begin
    this installation?

    Thanks in advance for any help and advice.

    -=Thinker
    (My windows days are officially over. Someone ring the gong!) 

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