[TriLUG] A true newbie

[Vestal, Roy L.]

>Well you should consider going to the Installfest!  The folks there will
help 
>you get linux on your box - and hopefully do it without blowing away your 
>Win2k partition.

I totally agree. Again, I'll volunteer to help. I like helping transition M$
folks to Linux. It's what I've done.


>They'll have to shrink the current partition (and I think the lug has a
copy 
>of Partition magic...) to make room for the Linux.  Linux will need a
minimum 
>of two partitions.  One for swap and one for data.

Jon, don't forget FIPS which works well. I have both fips and pm, and I use
fips for this kind of application, simply because it loads faster.