Re: completely new to home Linux

Please excuse the top posting.

I just installed Ubuntu 5.10 as a dual boot with XP on a laptop. If
you have a single partition the install CD will offer to resize it.
You can choose how room you want to free up, and then the installation
does the rest. It seemed a bit scary, but it worked perfectly. So I
think the easiest way is to install XP first in a single partition
and let the Ubantu installation do the other partitions for you.

Everything just worked.

Open Office comes preloaded.

I have a two linksys wireless cards. They have a linux driver for one
of them on the linksys web site but not the 54G. I haven't tried it
yet.

After fooling with various Linux distros over the past few years I
find Ubuntu to be the best. It is highly rated.

There is a specific Ubuntu newsgroup: alt.os.linux.ubuntu, so that is
a good place for specific Ubuntu questions.










On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:24:05 -0800, k wallace <wallace.k@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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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