Re: installing Linux

[Rai'da Al-Zu3bi <raida_lists at yahoo dot com>]

Shukran Mohammed for the useful tips and info.  Glad you enjoyed Open Source Asia and I hope that we can manage to hold a similar event here in the Arab region.

 

I'm almost there w/Linux inshallah.... 

 

A friend helped me partition my drive and install Red Hat 9.  To be honest, he didn't help, he took the laptop and *did* it =)

 

He's now looking for a driver for Linksys WPC54G for Linux  (I have a wireless network at home), so any tips would be much appreciated

 

I hope to be fully operational and ready to translate by next week...

 

Oh and I've also reminded Honza about the PO files.

 

All the best,

R

Mohammed Sameer <msameer at foolab dot org> wrote:

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:29:52PM -0800, Rai'da Al-Zu3bi wrote:
>
> Thanks for this useful advice and information Ahmed. The scariest thing to
> me about moving to Linux (as convinced as I am in the importance of FOSS
> particularly for Arab non-profits/voluntary societies) is the lack of
> readily available support/experts for it nearby.
>
>

I have no idea about your local LUG, But feel free to ask on EGLUG or the IRC chnnel #eglug @ irc.freenode.net

>
> I think I can borrow a copy of "kiss the blue screen of death goodbye" from
> a friend. I'll take it from there and see how it goes. In any case, I'm
> "sacrificing" my old Pentium II laptop for this experiment. All in the name
> of FOSS!
>
>
>
> Salam,
>
> R
> ahmed naqsh wrote:
>
> Umm , but be sure to do your homwrok beforehand , since it won't be time
> for it when you face a ciomputer that won't work for some reason or
> another . I remeber spending over 3 days trying to get redhat9 to
> install and failing , each time for a different reason , to get it to do
> that .
> If you want my advice , get a good book beforehand , like "Running
> Linux" from oreilly , it's excellent and will help you throuh the
> installation . You can download it , illegally , from various sources
> around the web , in .pdf or .chm format . And also there is one titled
> something like "Leave the Blue Screen of Death behind : go linux " ,
> which is also ok . I do not know whether it is legal to download such
> books , but come on , who's gonna pay a month's salary for a book when
> it can be downloaded in five minutes ?
> There is a very interesting s ite called sleekfreak ( that isn't the
> exact address ) , which will let you download many books , only if
> you're running linux , which is no good , if you *want* to run linux .
> But you can cheat it easily , get a download manager and make it
> identify itself as , say , Lynx , and download away . Getright should do
> the job .
> Rai'da Al-Zu3bi wrote:
> > Excellent. If I manage to do it myself, I shall pass on this knowledge
> > to others, particularly the Arab NGOs I work with. One of the things
> > I'd like to eventually do is to get Arabeyes to give a training
> > workshop on Arabic FOSS to NGOs here in Jordan...but let's take it one
> > step at a time =)
> >
> > Thanks again.
> > R
> >
> > */Nadim Shaikli /* wrote:
> >
> > --- Rai'da Al-Zu3bi wrote:
> > > Thanks so much. Will do this weekend. Just one
> > > question: will this partition my drive or turn it into< BR>> > a Linux
> machine? If it's the latter, any tips on how
> > > to keep both Windows and Linux? Sorry this is turning
> > > into an on-line course on Linux installation =)
> >
> > This is all an investment in getting people to the RIGHT
> > side of the fence :-) You have 2 options, you can install
> > linux on your HardDrive and have it be the sole partition
> > there (ie. it will occupy and take-up the entire drive) or
> > you can have a dual-boot machine. Your best bet if you want
> > to go the dual-boot route is to already have your windows
> > installation there and then you simply load-in the Linux CD
> > and follow the directions (you'll want to make sure you have
> > a partition you can install linux on and you can repartition
> > your drive using fdisk and/or "partition-magic", etc). Once
> > Linux is installed, it will detect the other windows partition
> > and add it to a "lilo" boot menu which will give you the option
> > to choose what it is that you want to boot into once you turn the
> > machine on.
> >
> > There are a number of very good sites out there on the web that
> > are worth a quick read (google is your friend); here is one,
> >
> > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO
> >
> > Salam.
> >
> > - Nadim
> >
> >
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