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Re: [LUG] Showing some distros

 

I can't really help here,  but will wish you best of luck with this (well
a belated best of luck as it's now 21:00)

paul

> Dear All
>
> I am having 3 friends in tonight to look at my Ubuntu (6.06)  and
> Kubuntu set up. It would be nice to install something else before their
> very eyes. I could add a distro to my laptop, which shows:
>
> 01 /dev/sda1 fat16    78.41MB 0.03MB 78.44MB (used 7.58GB)
> 02 /dev/sda2 ntfs        9.77GB 78.44MB 9.84GB
> 03 /dev/sda3 extended 60.13GB 9.84GB 69.97GB (used 9.04GB)
> 04 /dev/sda5 ext3        57.66GB 9.84GB 67.50GB
> 05 /dev/sda6 linux-swap 2.47GB 67.50GB 69.97GB
> 06 /dev/sda4 fat32     3.15GB 69.97GB 73.12GB DellRestore (used 2.50GB)
> 07 /dev/sda7-1 free 7.84MB 73.12GB 73.13GB
>
> If I add, say Mandriva 2007 or openSuse10.2, how should I respond to the
> partition dialogue, if I have a choice? Is repartitioning sda5 likely to
> cause problems for the existing swap file partition? It might also be a
> useful task to upgrade 6.06 to 6.10 to show how easy it is. However, I
> need guidance on how to do this, preferably in the GUI (both for me and
> for my friends!).
>
> I also have an old Win2000 Professional machine with 38GB. Though I have
> defragmented the few files left on it, it seems to have a significant
> wadge of system files slightly more than half way in the disc (and it
> did not reorganise the data files to occupy contiguous space next to the
> main block of system files at the beginning of the disc). Will I need to
> ONLY use the empty space or can I safely reformat a larger block of disc
> space for a Linux distro? Incidentally the defragmenter left some system
> files with fragments, in one case 19 and another 22, the rest 2. I could
> use DOS to copy, save with a new name, delete and rename if this is a
> good idea. Similarly the data files. I could only do this with one of
> these files in the GUI.
>
> I also have an old laptop with Me on it and would like to set my 12 year
> old very sceptical daughter up with a useful distro that was quick in
> action and could get her on to bebo and preferably access to educational
> software! Would DSL be a good choice? This one would be Linux only!
>
> Finally, what would be the best way to dump Windows on two of my
> machines? My laptop (currently with XP dual booted with Ubuntu) seems
> the best option, leaving one desktop in my office dual booted (the one I
> write about above).
>
> Many thanks
>
> james kilty
> http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk
>
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