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That is what I am using (SimplyMepis test02) from the harddrive. I found test03 to be a little buggy (fireworks GL, my favourite screensaver would not work and some stuff was added I didn't need). I think when they tweaked test 02 to make 03, they messed something up in the graphics system. Overall, I found Mepis to be the best for me because it plays many different video file types 'right out of the box'. If you install it (test03, no synatic in 02) to the harddrive, kpackage is easier to use and understand than synaptic.

Dude, first of all, RUN as fast and as far as you can get from Fedora. Almost everybody agrees Red Hat started Fedora to get free (labour) OS tweaking and upgrading. It is buggy as hell and is not suited for a newbie such as yourself. When Schindler says "your system just meets the requirements for the distro" (I don't know why he feels the need to repeat everything danleff says, a little bit of 'brown-nosing' goin' on there), take that literally. It's like running XP on a Pentium/100Mhz. Debian based distros are more newbie friendly and something like Knoppix or Ubuntu (there are others, just a couple of suggestions from a couple hundred +, just thought I would clarify before the 'regs' jump all over my answer because I am not part of their little clique) installed to the harddrive would be 'lighter' than Fedora. Go to www.distrowatch.com and look/read/surf around. I started with lousy rpm distros and wound up with Mepis (Debian/apt-get). Now, about user guides, etc., print whatever you can, even if you have to boot back and forth between Windows and Linux. There is nothing worse than getting stuck in the command line and not knowing what to type. At least, if it is on paper right in front of you, you may solve your problems like I did. These guys give very general answers, If you want real answers, you have to dig around. For example, Mepis has extensive user guides and help files for practically everything. I got my printer going in Mepis no problem using a driver for the next older model than mine (for the regs, it is the brother HL-1435 in the hardware list on this site where I posted it). But I digress, these are things I had to find out on my own, experimenting. I have installed some distros over and over, sometimes, 10 times or more until I got it right. After each install I would 'poke' around and tweak until I made a mess, causing a re-install. Wait till you are really comfortable with a distro before you worry about not crashing. Who cares if you crash ANY Linux, it is only a bit of electricity to wipe it off and try again or try a new distro. That is how I learned, lots of reading and trial and error. By the way, your 233 IS slow, they (the regs) called my 733 slow (don't know why when it has handled EVERY distro with ease). Little bit of hypocrisy goin' on boys? Now this is an answer. Answering a question with yet, even more questions is not an answer. In regards to the floppy question, the hardware and access system haven't changed in a couple of decades so I don't know what danleff is talking about: "The older the floppy, the more issues you will have, regardless of the amount of usage". When you click on the icon in Win98, Windows automatically 'mounts' the floppy behind the scenes. In Linux, you have to manually mount the floppy (or cd, or hd partition), most of the time by right clicking the floppy icon and selecting mount. In better distros, the icon will change slightly to show it is mounted. The second step to this process is opening a 'file browser' to view the contents. P.S. To the site keepers, really appreciate you deleting my original user name (NOT). Didn't do anything to warrant it. Something wrong with you people. Cliques REALLY suck.

Here is another idea: if your drive is big enough, resize the partition to make room for a new one. Install Mepis on the new partition. I find, with multilpe distros, installing the boot loaders to floppies can be less dangerous and confusing.

Forget 'Simply', go with ProMepis. Trust me, it is way better. A little glitchy but better.

"It looks like you no longer have RedHat 9 on your system?" One of us needs glasses because I could swear the title of the post says 7.1. By the way, gshakoor, there are much less 'glitchy' (and better) distros out there than Red Hat. Just ask one of these 'experts'. Question for the website people: if you can have a lightbulb or floppydisk icon up there, why is there no penguin?