Andavane
04-28-2007, 08:56 PM
Greetings
I am a beginner and have read some of the posts and the stickies to be best of my ability.
I have an IBM machine with
"Pentium 4 CPU 3.00 Ghz
2.99 GHz, 0,99 GB of RAM"
It has a 40 GB hard drive running XP Service Pack 2.
A friend has put in a 120 GB HD in a bay formerly occupied by a CD Drive.
This drive has been "Initialized" in Windows, but not yet formatted or partitioned.
My plan is to format the new HD and partition it, which I had first planned to do
using Windows's Disk Management and partition function.
However my friend (who is also interested in learning Knoppix/Linux over Windows)
suggested that it may be a more worthwhile learning experience to format the drive and partition it
using Knoppix. I would then install a different flavour of linux in each partition
I would presumably use the "Qparted" tool, but feel very unconfident in proceeding in something which I do not fully understand.
Could someone point me to a good beginners guide for this, or else give really simple instructions in what to do?
Kind Regards,
John
I am a beginner and have read some of the posts and the stickies to be best of my ability.
I have an IBM machine with
"Pentium 4 CPU 3.00 Ghz
2.99 GHz, 0,99 GB of RAM"
It has a 40 GB hard drive running XP Service Pack 2.
A friend has put in a 120 GB HD in a bay formerly occupied by a CD Drive.
This drive has been "Initialized" in Windows, but not yet formatted or partitioned.
My plan is to format the new HD and partition it, which I had first planned to do
using Windows's Disk Management and partition function.
However my friend (who is also interested in learning Knoppix/Linux over Windows)
suggested that it may be a more worthwhile learning experience to format the drive and partition it
using Knoppix. I would then install a different flavour of linux in each partition
I would presumably use the "Qparted" tool, but feel very unconfident in proceeding in something which I do not fully understand.
Could someone point me to a good beginners guide for this, or else give really simple instructions in what to do?
Kind Regards,
John