[olug] Corel Linux installation Questions

[Mike Peterson]

Why are you using Corel, if I may ask?
Are you familiar with mounting devices to directories  in Linux or UNIX?
Will be using a second hard drive for Linux or dividing part of your current
hard drive?
Do you have plenty of space free on your windows partition?

----- Original Message -----
From: "S. Ron Oliver" <sroliver at csc.calpoly.edu>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 11:01 AM
Subject: [olug] Corel Linux installation Questions


> Hi!
>
> Just this morning I joined this list, so if my questions have already been
> discussed, please be patient.  I also apologize for the length of this
> message.  I am anxious to install Corel Linux, but feel I need at least
> some of these answers before I start.  In the future I will try to stick
to
> shorter, one-subject messages.
>
> About 6 months ago I acquired and installed Corel Linux to a DOS/Windows
> partition on one of my W98 PCs, for a special project I am doing on
> contract.  After a very short time my priorities on that project changed
> and I was pulled off the Linux work to develop/refine a Training
> Program.  I have recently put the "finishing touches" on the first product
> in the Training Program, and have returned to the Linux work.
>
> My previous experience with the Corel Linux User Guide was that there was
a
> LOT of missing, and quite a bit of incorrect, information.  So, this time
I
> started with the " for Dummies" book for Corel Linux, written by Stephen
> Harris and Erwin Zijleman.  Although I am far from being a "Dummy" in this
> environment, I was hoping to gain a benefit over the limp Corel User
Guide.
>
> My preliminary experience (having read the first 4 chapters) is that I
have
> definitely gained a benefit.  However, I have several questions that have
> not readily been answered.  (In addition to reading the first 4 chapters,
I
> have consulted the Index and spent many minutes "skimming" the rest of the
> book looking for answers, to no avail.)
>
> 1. Toward the bottom of page 15 the authors claim "Corel Linux lets you
> read and write to files in folders set up by Windows programs."
>
> OK.  That's GREAT!  That capability is a major requirement for the project
> I am working on.  I have now spent several days' time searching help files
> and existing documentation to learn how to do this, with no results.  So,
> can anyone tell me where this is documented?  Or could someone just simply
> tell me how to do it?
>
> 2. Although it was not at all clear based on the Corel User Guide, I now
> understand that, due to the nature of my project, installing Linux to a
> "DOS/Windows partition" was the wrong decision.  So now I will delete the
> CDL directory, etc., and reinstall.  However, there remain some questions
> as to where to install.  (By the way, based on the needs of my project, I
> also now understand that the "Default Desktop" was the wrong choice and
> that, in fact, I need the Server Desktop.)  I'm guessing that I need to
use
> the "Edit partition table" option, but I am not sure.  I am wondering if
> the "Use free disk space" option would work.  I cannot tell, based on what
> I have read about it, if taking this option will cause Install Express to
> automatically set up it's own partition, etc.  My guess is that it will
> not.  If it does not, then will I not suffer a performance degradation
> similar to that of the "DOS/Windows partition" option (to which
degradation
> I can whole-heartedly testify!)?  If not, how will performance compare
with
> the "Edit partition table option", and why won't it be as bad as the
> "DOS/Windows partition" option?
>
> I would very much appreciate hearing from any of you who can help me.
>
> Thank you.
>
> sro
>
> S. Ron Oliver, semi-retired professor of Computer Science and Computer
> Engineering.  www.csc.calpoly.edu/~sroliver
>
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