RE: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-09-02 Thread Hershel Robinson
> >I have a new machine on order. The more interesting items are: > > > >Mobo: Gigabyte 7VA KT400 + Sound/AGP8X/DDR400 > >AMD Athlon XP 2000Mhz > >ATI Radeon 7500 64B/Dual Head > >UDMA 40Gig 7200RPM > > > >My first question is will I have any difficulty with these > hardware pieces? > > > You will

RE: Windoze software [was Newbie Hardware/Partitioning]

2003-09-01 Thread Hershel Robinson
> > if it was my machine ... > > > > 10GB/windows/dev/hda1 - find out how > much space you're > > using now and double it?? > > ..leave it alone, he's gonna _want_ 30GB for linux. _Eventually_. > He just needs to experience the why's for hi

Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-08-31 Thread Hershel Robinson
write me offline in the event that the subject matter may not be of interest to the list. Thank you, Hershel Robinson - -- .''`. Hershel Robinson : :' : `. `'` proud Debian Newbie `- Debian - when you feel like installing a new operating system ;) -- To UNS

Newbie Hardware Question

2003-08-18 Thread Hershel Robinson
I am about to purchase a new machine on which I hope to install Debian. I was told by someone that I should insure that the new hardware will be Linux compatible. I thought that one of Debian's claims to fame is that it runs on so many different platforms. Perhaps, however, there are still hardware

RE: Helping the newbie

2003-08-14 Thread Hershel Robinson
ardware firewall, so I presume some security issues may not be of tremendous concern to me. I am a complete Linux newbie and I am hoping to install Debian on a second machine, just as soon as I can purchase said machine. :) Any advice is appreciated. Thank you, Hershel Robinson Jerusalem, Israel --