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Hi, Welcome to dclug.
I was wondering what Fedora is like for a new user.
Stay away from Fedora - it has some serious bugs at the moment and is definitely not suitable for a new user as it stands.
What would you recomend for a distro?
I'd recommend Mandrake, it's easy to install and relatively user friendly - I've got cd's of the "10.0 Official" release, so if you like I'll run off some copies for you. Let me know offlist (trew@xxxxxxxx).
Like I said, I don't have much experience in fiddling round with this sort of thing, but my spare computer has got something like this coming to it - past experience when I fiddled round with a Win 3.0 machine tells me I could experience interesting and inexplicable results once I start playing - still, I'd prefer it to carry on working (it doubles up as a CD player ever since my stereo broke.
Why don't you let us know what area you live in (roughly) there might be a meeting where you could get "live" assistance.
I'm assuming I'll have to find a new set of drivers for my sound card, or worst case the card is incompatible with Linux (it's a Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1 on the offchance someone has any idea what will happen to it) is there anywhere in particular that is a good place to start looking for Linux drivers? I'll check the manufacturer site when I get round to looking at the sound card, but I was wondering if there was anywhere else other than Google.
Try http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3 unfortunately you're right if you have problems it'll be card drivers . . .
So basically what I'm about to try and do is exterminate all remnents of Windows 98 and install Linux, is there anything I should look out for that could render the machine kaputt?
No you shouldn't be changing the BIOS and can always boot from a rescue floppy, check the BIOS before you start and make sure it's set up to boot from floppy (if there is one). Best regards, Mark ____________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.