Forget Open Office. You're not going to use that yet. Maybe not even anytime this year. Shaun Everiss writes: > I have auralux. > As well as fedora. > I suppose I could try that, but my course involves scripting, hmm. > If we are on a external drive, and I booted from cd if I could use that drive to write my saves to on the same partition as dos. > Yeah, it wouldn't matter then, but I'd still need to install open office, etc. > I suppose I could have a small say about 2gb partition in linux on the hard disk for software for linux. > Then install all software and configs to that. > or had the configs ona floppy, or whatever then just pointed the thing to boot and access those configs. > and files. > At 05:58 a.m. 26/02/2005, you wrote: > >Why not try a live CD distro like MEPIS or KNOPPIX so when you boot from CD your in Linux and when you boot from HDD your in whatever > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: John Heim <jheim@xxxxxxxx> > >Date: Friday, February 25, 2005 10:19 am > >Subject: Re: Fedora core 3 and oralux > > > >> At 10:15 AM 2/24/2005, Shaun Everiss wrote: > >> Is it therefore easier to have a seperate machine for dos or is > >> the > >> windows xp console suffishient, or > >> > >> > >> My opinion is that as a new user, it is best to have a seperate > >> machine for > >> linux. Something like fedora will install easily on a used > >> computer, you'll > >> be able to take all the defaults and have a working machine in > >> short order. > >> That will settle your boot loader question too because whatever > >> linux > >> distrabution you choose will have a default boot loader. > >> > >> Where I live, it is easy to acquire a computer to run linux > >> because linux > >> is far less demanding in it's hardware requirements than Windows. > >> I got my > >> linux machine for free from someone because they were going to > >> just throw > >> it out and they'd have had to pay the city $20 to dispose of it. I > >> don't > >> know what things are like where you are but my opinion is that you > >> should > >> try to find an inexpensive used machine on which to install linux. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list