Re: Windows user to take plunge this weekend.

Sunburned Surveyor wrote:

> Ark Linux Users and Developers,
> 
> I currently run Windows 2000 at work and Windows 2000 XP at home. I am
> preparing to install Ark Linux on my computer at home this weekend.
> (We will be getting a lot of rain this weekend in California :] ) I
> only have one partition on my hard drive, which is currently being
> hogged by my Windows OS in its entirety. I managed to figure out that
> I could use the System Rescue CD to resize my partition to make room
> for Ark Linux using the express install option. However, I noticed Ark
> Linux now comes with a parallel install option. This is my question:
> 
> Which is the safest install option? Should I:
> 
> (1) Resize my hard drive partition using System Rescue CD, and then
> install Ark using the express option?
> 
> Or
> 
> (2) Just install Ark using the parallel install.
> 
> I will be backing up my data before the installation, of course. But I
> don't really want to wipe my hard drive. Is one of these options safer
> than the other? (I am a fairly experienced computer user, and I do
> some programming in Java, but I've got no previous Linux or Unix
> experience.)
> 
> Thanks for any advice. I look forward to learning and using Ark Linux.
> 
> The Sunburned Surveyor

Use the Express option, Parallel installs will be removved shortly as the
appear to fail more then 90% of the time.
 
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