[Gllug] Wide eyed and innosent new members 21/10/02

Pete Ryland pdr at pdr.cx
Tue Oct 22 23:11:34 UTC 2002


On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:36:30AM +0100, Dennis Kersh wrote:
> Hi all 
> Thank you all for your quick replies. I have been reading your list for
> the last few weeks.
> Don't any of you ever switch off and go to bed?
> I did attend the Linux Expo and bought Debian GNU/Linux 3 disks1and 2 to
> try at home but not until after 2nd Nov meeting.
> I do intend to come along on the 2nd Nov with the club computer and
> hopefully a couple of members   
> Is it best to uninstall all windows programs or should we reformat the
> hard drive,

You don't need to uninstall windows.  In fact, if you don't, it makes it
easier to determine exactly what hardware you have when it comes time to
install linux.

> we have a 486 computer is that OK.

a 486 is fine.  some more recent flashy graphical programs may not work so
well though, but none of those is necessary.

Pete

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