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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: lforrestster AT gmail.com, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] 486 Laptops/Gmail on BL (was: USB modem and wireless<blah>)
  • Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:48:44 +0000 (UTC)

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:23:39PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Lee Forrest wrote:

I've fixed the top posting. But I won't do it often. And I've
already blocked one person on this list from my mailboxes
for doing it chronically.

It _stinks_.

Please explain what top posting is.

He is coming by in three days to work on it with us. I asked
him what software is on it now. If it has XP, is there some
easy way to add BL3? I used qemu in BL to run DOS (badly) -
would I use qemu to run BL in XP?

If it has ME I can run loop linux. If it has 2000 we have the
CD so I can risk shrinking it, but how do I shrink an NTFS file
system?

I first ran linux by reinstalling XP and leaving enough space
for linux to run on, and booting from a floppy. (Could be
a CD, of course.) You could also use an app like partition
magic to shrink the windows partition, but I hear they are
risky.

He bought the computer used and is unlikely to have received an XP CD with it. If he wants to keep XP, I am not going to shrink it, and I don't think our DOS PQMAGIC could shrink XP anyway. Nor can we assume he has a working CD-ROM drive (our best laptop does not).

If your friend doesn't have enough commitment to do that he
should just run one of the live CDs, like slax or knoppix.

He knows nothing about linux, just asked if I could get his daughter doing email and I suggested linux. It boots a lot faster, even from floppy disk, and I don't want to learn enough XP to help him with it. I should look up qemu in the archives.

We could make him a copy of an old DSL (Damn Small Linux) version but I find it more confusing and you can't customize it. We want something simple and single-purpose.

BL would not be for him. This is definitely a hacker's distro.

I am not a hacker. This is the only linux I have run for more than half an hour. Everything I know about linux I have learned here. There are quite a few other beginners.

Lee




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