fwd: hello and perhaps some help

[Sarangan Thuraisingham]

Regina Woodard wrote:
> Hi there. I actually signed up for the sounder list and the listmaster 
> said I should probably address my question here, so I'm going to go 
> ahead and paste it here -
> 
> THe gist is this - I would like to install SOME form of linux (at this 
> point, it doesn't even matter which one) on a second hard drive. THough 
> my primary master drive is 80GB, I really don't want to have two OS on 
> that drive, hence the second.
> 
> 
>>  As for the specs of my computer, I would like this placed on a second
>>  hard drive NOT the master (so basically the slave) The slave is a
>>  Fujitsu limited with 1.96GB; I am using an internal NIC which is Belkin
>>  2003; NTFS; nVidia sound card with Hercules drivers....again, I want
Sound card, you mean Graphics Card rite? ;-)

>>  this to be on the second drive and theoretically, when I boot from the
>>  CD, shouldn't it do what Windows does and ask which drive I want it on?
>>  My computer is set to boot from the CD, but at least with Suse, it
>>  didn't even pick up that I had two hard drives.
> 
> Okay, so sorry about this very long post, but I truly am hoping to make
>>  this work. Any suggestions are appreciated and even though I am a BIT,
>>  please take the time if possible to explain this as though I'm a five
>>  year old. All the searches I've done for this problem either are too
>>  confusing or don't address my problem and there doesn't seem to be a
>>  solution.
> 
> 
> As it stands, I got another reply that said I wouldn't have enough room 
> on the 1.96GB drive, but again, I only want to test Linux to see if I 
> would like it or not. THe screenshots I've seen makes me want to, but I 
> don't want to try it if it means going out and buying another hard drive 
> or worse, re-partitioning the 80GB and deleting everything on that drive.
> 
> Any help?
> 
> Gina
> 

If you just want to test Linux, wouldn't it be easier just to boot up a 
Ubuntu Live CD, rather than committing to installing straight away. This 
way you will get to see if Ubuntu is the right choice for you and also 
you can see if all your hardware will work out of the box in Ubuntu.

I think 1.96GB is enough for server type install. But if you want a full 
desktop installation you might need more than that( OpenOffice is around 
200MB and think about all the other apps that you might need). Then 
again I could be wrong, as I have reached the point where I have 
installed all the apps I may ever need :). So someone please confirm the 
size of a normal Ubuntu install.

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Regards,
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Sarangan Thuraisingham
ECS, University of Southampton, UK

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