Linux & UNIX Advise needed…

[Carl.]

</font><blockquote><font>quote:</font><hr><font>Originally posted by deepsludge:
<strong>Use the one that promotes socialism, cause that’s the opposite of bein anti-social</strong></font><hr></blockquote><font>Isn’t that Microsoft Operating Systems? <img>

</font><blockquote><font>quote:</font><hr><font> Can I install that without uninstalling windoze?
</font><hr></blockquote><font>To the best of my knowledge, yes (lilo, I think is the dual booter) but be careful with the file systems..

Carl.

[Carl.]

O.K., I am fluent in Big Bill’s Operating systems, but as someone who wants to get into the linux and Solaris area.. I need advise, but first here is what I am going to do…

I had an extra motherboard, which I am giving to my girlfriend’s store. I am building them a new AMD based system. In return, I get my pick of parts. So I am going to build a P3/550 system with 256 MB RAM. I am going to use a removable IDE drive bay for the Operating Systems. One is going to Solaris 8 x86 (so I can touch ANY verison of Solaris, since I am going to need it for my job (Enterprise Storage)).

The other one is either going to Caldera Linux, Red Hat or Mandrake. Which one should i use? Why?

One other question, if I use NFS for another drive, can I use the drive for both OS’s? Or do I need to use 2 removable shelves and have a solaris data drive and a Linux data drive?

Carl.

[Carl.]

The best way I would save data is just to burn it to CD if you have one… Or borrow one.. Then just reformat the drive. Or copy it to a 2nd drive..

I do not know of anything that will actually clean your HDD.. maybe Norton Clean Sweep.. But if you are going to reinstall 98 (Hopefully SE), I would just burn and format

YMMV,

Carl.

[nickburnz]

Freebsd…. is what you want…..

http://www.freebsd.org

for your question on being able to see the ntfs hdd… if boot into the unix os you should be able to mount the ntfs drive……. but seeing the unix file system from the windows hdd might take some hacking . . .

[swany]

Explore2fs, the WIN32 explorer for Linux ex2fs partitions

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/

Check out the http://groups.google.com for just about any tech answer you’ll ever need. Just back up important files beforehand on CDR.

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