Justbill 0 Posted January 26, 2005 Well, I've made up my mind (or whats left of it)! Fedora Core 3 has got to GO! As I have said in the other thread, this OS is probably very good, but I am an amature, and I do have an older computer. So, I'm just guessing, but it sounds to me like I need to re-format. My plan is (scarey as it may be), to purchase Nortan's Partition Magic, to try to get this OS off my computer(as I have NOT been able to remove it as yet), and then install something else. I have a copy of VectorLinux SOHO 5.0, does anyone have any thoughts on that OS? Does anyone have any suggestions. I downloaded Mepis but cannot burn it to a cd. I am not prepared to give up on Linux yet, I think this may just be to complicated of an OS for me. Soooooooooooooooooo, whats out there available that is sympathetic and forgiving to amatures like me? Justbill Share this post Link to post
clutch 1 Posted January 26, 2005 You really, really shouldn't need a 3rd party partitioning tool to get rid of any Linux OS. Try using Mandrake, and let it "automagically" partition your drive. It might be easier to use as well. Share this post Link to post
martouf 0 Posted January 26, 2005 "amature" -- are you saying you're an armature or an amateur? 8) Your chances for success will be greater if you can provide the good people here a detailed list of the parts in your computational relic. if I could suggest a different approach to gaining experience in configuring and using Linux you may find more productive and less frustrating ? Start off with a "LiveCD" distribution. My opinion is the SuSE LiveCD is 'good', Knoppix is 'excellent', and SimplyMEPIS is 'damn near perfect' (especially for the newbie). If you're not already familar with burning disc images, then save yourself the trouble... Find a friend to burn you a copy or buy a prepared disc. Have a look at linuxiso.org and mepis.org for how to burn/buy/download info. "Quando omni flunkus moritati" -- Possum Lodge motto Loose translation: "When all else fails, play dead." Share this post Link to post
Justbill 0 Posted January 26, 2005 Right now I would like to be promoted to armature! This machine is a Pentium II 233 processor, 192 mb ram, 60 gig HD, I've added a Mad Dog 4-in-1 one Dominator cd burner (which I like to call the pouting puppy), I'm not going to say its no good, but I will say I would'nt give it to someone I didn't like Thank you for your suggestion, I will look at all of them, Knoppix, and Mepis have already been suggested. so I will probably go with one of those. "Blastingus Cappus Partitionus Harddriveee" Justbill's new motto Loosely translated "I'm fixin to blow this freakin thing up" Justbill Share this post Link to post
Justbill 0 Posted January 27, 2005 Clutch: The reason I was toying with the idea of Partition Magic, was , I forgot to mention that the FAT32 part of my HD is, well, missing, gone, deleted, disappeared, it just aint there. Not real sure where it went, but it aint livin in this machine no more And, I really don't remember who mentioned it, but I was told that tool could replace FAT32. So, I guess I really don't know< I was just going to give it a try. Any advice? Justbill Share this post Link to post
