Whether you are installing one or more operating systems it's a good idea to create more partitions than it initialy looks you need. That makes it much easier for upgrades and backups. My suggestion is to start with installing windows followed by Linux creating multiple partitions. For example Windows partition of whatever size followed by / 200 MB /usr 3.5 GB /var 200 MB /tmp 300 MB /home the rest of the disk that will provide you with flexible environment for upgrades or distribution switching, if you ever decide to do that, while preserving your critical work. Linux can read files on W2000 partition but it's not recommended to write to it so you may want to have another DOS partition for sharing files. You do not need to depend on Microsoft Office 2000 anymore since Linux comes with well supported Open Office. I'm not sure about support for unsighted people. -- Rafael On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:41:30AM -0700, Have Dog Will Travel wrote: > I have a 74.5GB HD with Windows XP Home Edition. I also have RedHat 7.3 ISOs > on CD RWs. I was thinking of partitioning the HD to three partitions; > C:\Windows Xp Home Edition 35GB, D:\Windows 98SE 4.5GB and E:\Linux 35GB. I > will need to move my CD RW and DVD ROM drives to other drive letters. My PC > also has 512MB of RAM. I have no sight so I am not sure how to partition the > drive with some sighted assistance. I am becoming interested in Gnopericus. > I am not sure if I should install the RedHat 7.3 and some how upgrade the > the Red hat Linux. I hate Windows, however, I have two groups that use > Microsoft Office 2000: at some point I will need to look at installing a > windows console program like Samba. I do abunch of HTML programming and > demostrations. I am also looking into learning C,JAVA and Pearl programming > languages. I started with a Commodore 64 in july 1984. I also have a DECTalk > Ex press that works wwell with Speakup and I am thinking of eventially > moveing to my Sound Blaster sound card and useing the DECTalk as a backup. > My ISP is a cable service. I would like to hear some advice? > > Angus MacKinnon > Adaptive Computer Educator, ACE > Email: MAILTO:flodabay@xxxxxxxxxxx > Web Page: http://members.shaw.ca/dabneyadfm > Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc. > http://www.choroideremia.org _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list