On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:38:12PM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the folowing: > > Hi, > > I'm still toying with the idea of fully replacing Windows w Debian > GNU/Linux. > The doubt I am still having is this: will I be able to use all the data > that I > had created under Windows, those documents, emails, images, audios and > videos? List out your major Windows applications on a piece of paper.
Check if any of them produce weird output formats - Microsoft Publisher is one such, Microsoft Access database another. Check if you have any games/apps which are a MS Windows must have. I have children's games for my daughter and the Childrens Encyclopedia Britannica. > Anyone has done a complete and successful conversion? Will I have to > start-off > with a dual-OS system and do the conversion via the HD? Or should I carry > out > a MS Backup of all these data to a CD-RW and use it for the conversion > under > LInux? Would like to hear from you. I've used Linux virtually exclusively for ten years. About the only thing I currently use MS Windows for is listening to the BBC, which uses Real Player output. If you can install a second (larger) hard drive, put Linux on that and run dual boot for a while. Once you decide you no longer need MS Windows, you can always format the first hard disk and use it as a data store. > Cheers > > Ken > > ------------------ end of quote --------------- > > I have a dual OS system with Windows 98SE and Debian GNU/Linux. I put > woody on a second hard drive. Since woody can mount a FAT32 filesystem, > getting to the Windows hard drive is convenient. This is not a bad way to do this, though at this point, I'd look to use Sarge (currently the Debian testing distribution but to be released as stable soon now.) HTH, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
