thanks john....let's say i got one of my old machines with the crashed hard drive and i take it in and get the hard drive fixed......that's it...just get it to where's i could stick in a redhat cd and load my own....
should i tell them to make it where it will boot up to dos for me and then i can take it from there?
or do i need a unix machine to load up the linux onto?
i'm pretty sure i can run linux on my old windows machine right?
obviously the first thing is to get the hard drive repaired and get it to where it's ready for me to plug in a Linux CD and load my own linux software and boot up into linux.......
sorry for the ultra newbie posts.......hope to be up and running with linux asap.......really love my windows 98 machine too...just got a new 22" mitsubishi monitor......almost hurt my back carrying it down the stairs.....now want to get duplicate backup system running linux so can gradually learn linux and networking and set up and in-house lan system.....thanks for any help.
doug kenline
atlanta, georgia
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Doug -
Both Microcenter and CompUSA handle some Linux products now, but I don't
know if they do installations. (I suppose that is the thrust of your
question?) GIM did these at one point, and they are a credible store, but
I found their price (around $500) stunningly high! The Linux General Store
near G.I.T. announces monthly gatherings on this list and they often
include "install fests" to help folks get going. I wouldn't be surprised
if someone near you would offer to help if you asked through this list.
You can also get answers and suggestions at all levels of mastery by
asking here.
Regards -
John Mills
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