Re: completely new to home Linux

Tips:

Install Windows first.
You have plenty of space for both OS's ... you should give Linux at least
10GB ... it's up to you ... you could even split the hard drive 50/50.

I run Gentoo Linux on a laptop with 14GB of space. Using the KDE desktop
environment ... OpenOffice, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird ...

The Linux Grub boot loader can boot both operating systems (if it is loaded
in the MBR master boot record. It should present you with options to boot
both OS's after you install it (Grub should be a default during the Linux
install).

You should be able to find Linux applications to replace any Windows app.
You can also install WINE that can run a number of Windows applications in
Linux.



k wallace wrote:

Hi all,
I have experience with Unix and Linux (red hat) at work, but would like
to install a dual-boot option on my new home system. I have a disk copy
of Ubuntu, i'm just now formatting my new hard drive.

I don't know *squat* about this; completely learning as I go along.

What I want-
a system capable of doing everything I do at home with XP Pro, yet with
the freedom and flexibility of Linux. I'm not much of a MS fan, to tell
the truth.

I need all the usual; web access through my wireless G and/or
ethernet card/cablemodem, SSH tunnel to work and back, Star Office or
openoffice complete utility. I regularly run fairly heavy
numbercrunching programs and 3D modeling programs, my new system's
running an AMD 64, 250 GB Seagate HD, within a few months will be
running raid 0 on another 250 GB hd.

questions:
how much partition space do I allocate to each OS?
How to I prompt the system to invite me to select which OS i want to
use? I'm not the only user on the home box, but i am the only one who'll
be using Linux.

any other advice etc. is totally welcome.

For the record, i'm more hardware savvy than software savvy, which is
probably obvious from my questions; as a mechanical engineer, I
generally just let software 'do its thing' and tweak my hardware, but I
am interested in this move to Linux.

thanks
k wallace

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