> 1) I am incredibly knowledgable in Win95/NT. will i be able to run both > Operating Systems if i partition my hdd?
Yup. My own setup has DOS/Win 3.1, Win95, OS/2 and Debian on the same 1.2 GB drive. Win95 and OS/2 both are pretty minimal setups, though. > 2) how do i install it (just a quick overview, i've read over the > installation a lot, and it is really difficult to understand, for me...) Don't know about the official CD (I installed in the 1.2 days), but even then, it was pretty simple. At the time you had to create 5 installation disks, boot the first one and follow the instructions. Nowadays, I hear all you have to do is boot from the CD (if your bios takes it) or from a single disk you've created. Follow the instructions. If you know how to partition a drive, you're in business. I personally found the Debian install program to be the most straightforward I've seen (kudos to those who wrote it!), as it basically lays down the steps for you. > 3) i'm in! it's AMAZING (i'm assuming), how do i set up communications > for a win95 compatible modem? Now that i have it, can i download a web > browser for it from win95 then open it in linux? or is disk format > totally different? > - if so, what do i do? For the modem, if it's a Winmodem, forget it ; those things require a driver from the manufacturer, and the manufacturer doesn't consider Linux important enough to write a driver for it. In addition, those things are totally braindamaged, i.e., the CPU has to do almost all of the work for the modem. This is totally unacceptable in a multitasking environment, IMHO. If it's merely a PnP modem, you'll need to mess with the jumpers (if available) or isapnptool (if there are no jumpers). I can't help much here ; my own modem has jumpers. If it's external, then you won't have ANY problems of any kind. As for downloading stuff from Win95 for use with Linux, it's easy : Linux can read Win95 partitions (FAT32 requires a kernel patch, though). It can be used (almost) as a normal Linux partition. > 4) What productivity software is available? (word processing etc) Corel Wordperfect, StarOffice, Applixware, etc... Those are the commercial options. I personally prefer free options (student, y'know), so I've used LyX for a while. LyX is pretty friendly and feels like your "regular" word processor. It's still beta, though, and there are some things it can't do unless you know LaTeX already. If you are willing to spend a little extra time learning a quasi programming language, LaTeX yields results that you'd expect from a professional book printer (actually, some books are generated entirely with LaTeX nowadays). It's not wysiwyg, though, and that takes some getting used to. The results are definitely worth it, though. Plus, it's free. I find the single most useful productivity app _ever_ is emacs, the do-it-all text editor. That program alone can save you a lot of time if you use the add-ons supplied for it. I'm currently writing this message in it. :) -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
