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Re: another question... I hope I'm not getting annoying



Nimrod Tirosh wrote:
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> 1. should I use "UMSDOS", considering I'm only installing linux for trial?
>         1.1 in case I do use it, how about changing to a regular partition later?
>                     is it a very complicated things to do?
UMSDOS is a filesystem which is readable by DOS, but also has attributes like
a unix-filesystem.
I use ext2. That's the standard. It can't be read by dos, though.
I don't know if UMSDOS can function as a root filesystem well.

> 2. can anyone convinse me why I should pick one linux dist.pack and not the
>    other? (take for granted my anti-will to pay for anything)
You can download (almost) everything for free (although you still need to pay
for the connection-time, so perhaps copying a CD from someone is better...).
I use RedHat and Debian. I think RedHat is more user-friendly to the beginner
(Judging by your questions, you are one, am I wrong?).
There are more distributions that may be better for you. These are the two
ones I use frequently.


Regards,
Yannai.

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