From: "Nicholas R LeRoy" <nleroy AT norland DOT com>
Message-Id: <9709090848.ZM917@dopey>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 08:48:05 -0500
In-Reply-To: dj-admin@delorie.com
        "~OD: Money$oft hater reporting for duty!!!" (Sep  8,  8:18pm)
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Subject: Re: ~OD: Money$oft hater reporting for duty!!!
Cc: csantill AT lausd DOT k12 DOT ca DOT us
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> from: csantill AT lausd DOT k12 DOT ca DOT us
>
> I'm a Win$uck 95-dollars-from-your-wallet & DJGPP 4 DOS user looking
> for a DOS + UNIX alternative.  I want to know if I download OpenDOS &
> paid the measley $50 bucks for OpenLinux BASE at Egghead would I be
> able to just install all this software on my machine (also uninstalling
> the 275MB that Win$uck takes up) or would it be better & easier to just
> install it on a clean machine?

Glad to hear somebody else making the jump.  :-)

As far as Linux is concerned, you could save yourself some $$.  I'd check
out the InfoMagic Linux Developer's Kit -- its a 6-CD set with *everything*
on it, including RedHat 4.1 (lastest is 4.2).  Check out www.infomagic.com.
Or, I'd recomend getting it from CheapBytes http://www.cheapbytes.com.
They'll also have the latest RedHat 4.2 there -- you can buy the generic
4.2 CD for something like $10 or less.  The 6CD set will cost you something
like $20.  CheapBytes also has a lot of Linux books, and other stuff.
It's worth checking out, IMHO.  I switched to RedHat a couple of years ago,
and, in general, I'm quite happy with their distributions.  :-)

I'm not sure that I understand your question about installation.  If you're
asking about how much disk space you need, well... your milage will vary
tremendously.  OpenDOS can be installed in just a couple meg.  Linux, on the
other hand, if you install X11, emacs, TeX, etc. can easily consume a couple
hundred meg.  It's all a matter of what you install.

Converting your machine to a 'clean machine', if that's what you want to do,
is simply a matter of running 'fdisk'.  It's always worked for me.

Let me know if I can answer any more specific questions.  Welcome the the
Non-M$ family.

-Nick

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