Gentleman Loser wrote:
> I guess all in all im fine with just blazing over my hard drive with > linux, but i really want to keep my mp3 files, text/doc/wri files, my > webpage, and real audio files. If you could only tell me one thing it > would be how i could carry these things over to linux. I don't have a > cd burner to store them, and some of the files are bigger that a > floppy. The only thing i can think of is keeping them on the second > drive while the first drive makes the conversion to linux, then im > hoping that in linux i can still access the non-linux second drive, > put it's contents onto the first drive than convert the second drive > to linux. If that can be done, could you explain how? > > > Alternatively, you could do one or more of the following: > 1) If you have network storage somewhere, ftp (or etc) the files to > the network. > 2) Borrow, buy, etc a zip drive, or jaz, or etc. and copy the files > there. > 3) Temporarily put in another hard drive (cheapie or free 200MB > drive from a garage sale, flea market, etc) and copy the files there; > just make sure to test the retrievability of the files before > committing yourself to wiping the original. > 4) Leave one drive (permanantly?) as Windows, and the other as > Linux. > 5) Or, as you say, put linux on one drive for now, later copy the > files to it and then convert the other drive. Basically you just > install everything to one drive (the one without the files you want to > keep); then copy the files over, format the second drive for Linux, > and then "mount" the second drive as a "subdirectory" that used to be > on the first drive. It sounds a lot more complicated than it is. > > also, is there any way to still use Win95 apps in linux, i like to > make techno music on my computer and would like to carry over my > production music(and video games for that matter) to linux, is this > possible?? > > Yes, check out WINE, dual-booting, and VMWARE. (three different > options, any one of which might work well for you). > > thanks for any info you can give me, also if you can think of > anything else usefull to a linux newbie like me, please send > it. Joshua Klessig
