[TriLUG] A true newbie

[Vestal, Roy L.]

Yes. If you come to the installfest, I'll help you do this. I do this at
work for our developers all the time, so I've got the tools needed to get it
done correctly.

How big is your HDD? What make and model? You can email me offline if you'd
like.

I would recommend either Mandrake-Linux 8.2 or RedHat Linux 7.2 for the new
folks. I personally use RedHat.

Check out www.mandrakecampus.com. This is an online "e-learning" by Mandrake
that covers the basics like what is GPL licensing, all the way up to
administrating your Linux box. I recommend this to anyone new to Linux.
Also, www.linux.org (Linus' site) and www.linuxdoc.org are the 2 I use the
most.  A lot of folks also use www.freshmeat.net.

Hope this helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa C. Boyd [mailto:lisa at ptdesigns.biz]
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 3:03 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: [TriLUG] A true newbie


I figured I'd jump in here. I've monitored this list for a few days, and I 
have to say most of the stuff that ya'll have been talking about is over my 
head. However, I love a challenge and I'm extremely interested in
Installfest.

My newbie questions: I have a nice computer (PIII/750) that is running 
Win2k. From what I've read so far, there's a way to have both running on 
the same machine. Can I keep my current installation and load Linux under 
it's own partition or do I need to wipe out everything and start fresh? How 
much disk space (optimally) does Linux use? I guess I need to share that I 
would like to also eventually install Apache/PHP/MySQL under Linux for web 
development if that makes a difference. I also have no clue what 
installation version would be best for me to use.

Any web sites you could point me to would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Lisa Boyd

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