Fedora core 3 and oralux

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Fri Feb 25 18:28:18 UTC 2005


Forget Open Office. You're not going to use that yet. Maybe not even
anytime this year.

Shaun Everiss writes:
> I have auralux.
> As well as fedora.
> I suppose I could try that, but my course involves scripting, hmm.
> If we are on a external drive, and I booted from cd if I could use that drive to write my saves to on the same partition as dos.
> Yeah, it wouldn't matter then, but I'd still need to install open office, etc.
> I suppose I could have a small say about 2gb partition in linux on the hard disk for software for linux.
> Then install all software and configs to that.
> or had the configs ona floppy, or whatever then just pointed the thing to boot and access those configs.
> and files.
> At 05:58 a.m. 26/02/2005, you wrote:
> >Why not try a live CD distro like MEPIS or KNOPPIX so when you boot from CD your in Linux and when you boot from HDD your in whatever
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: John Heim <jheim at wisc.edu>
> >Date: Friday, February 25, 2005 10:19 am
> >Subject: Re: Fedora core 3 and oralux
> >
> >> At 10:15 AM 2/24/2005, Shaun Everiss wrote:
> >> Is it therefore easier to  have a seperate machine for dos or is 
> >> the 
> >> windows xp console suffishient, or
> >> 
> >> 
> >> My opinion is that as a new user, it is best to have a seperate 
> >> machine for 
> >> linux. Something like fedora will install easily on a used 
> >> computer, you'll 
> >> be able to take all the defaults and have a working machine in 
> >> short order. 
> >> That will settle your boot loader question too because whatever 
> >> linux 
> >> distrabution you choose will have a default boot loader.
> >> 
> >> Where I live, it is easy to acquire a computer to run linux 
> >> because linux 
> >> is far less demanding in it's hardware requirements than Windows. 
> >> I got my 
> >> linux machine for free from someone because they were going to 
> >> just throw 
> >> it out and they'd have had to pay the city $20 to dispose of it. I 
> >> don't 
> >> know what things are like where you are but my opinion is that you 
> >> should 
> >> try to find an inexpensive used machine on which to install linux.
> >> 
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