It's a good thing you realized now. Maybe you'll lay off the stuff and not destroy any more brain cells! If you're going to smoke pot, you should seriously think about running Windoze only. If you run a Linux distribution, you'll have to use your brain and not float around in la-la land. On the other hand, Windoze was designed for people who don't want to think, but just click a mouse. That's about all a brain on pot is good for IMO!

Ya true... that's exactly why I'm tired of it now...

Nukem,

Are you tired of Linux or pot?

Linux isn't really hard, it's just that the documentation is very esoteric. And when you post here, most everybody wants to help us. But, sometimes we ask a question without enough information for them to help us; and sometimes we get a reply from someone who doesn't really know the answer, but just wants to help give back to the LQ community because they've been given so much from LQ.

Hang in there, lay off the pot, and keep reading! Once you get your computer setup where you can "use Linux to do some work," rather than spending all your time "trying to get your computer to work with Linux," you'll find that it's fairly easy, fun, and a lot more efficient than Windoze. At least, that's been my experience. I started trying RedHat, then went to Debian, and finally settled on Slackware.

I want to answer your filesystem questions, but I just don't have the time right now. If you've got a Linux distro installed on your comp, you can type, from a command line prompt, man fs and it will tell you about the Linux filesystems (fs), as well as a little about DOS filesystems. For more information about DOS filesystems, try Google.

If you want to try Linux, may I suggest that you install Slackware. Print the Slackware-HOWTO file from the first CD before you start. Read it all before you start. And use fdisk to format your hard drive. Use the ReiserFS for all your Slackware partitions. If you don't know what to setup at first, set yourself a / (root) partition of at least 5GB, then a /home partition of at least 5GB, a swap partition twice the size of your physical memory, and a /boot partition of 100MB. That will get you down the road, you can learn, and when you decide that you need a major overhaul, you can keep your /home partition intact and not loose any of your settings. You could totally reinstall Slack and still have your email in place, your bookmarks in Mozilla, and all the files you put in /home. Now, that's something you can't do with any version of Windoze!

I think you'll find that the support for Slackware, specifically, is better than for Mandrake; and that Slackware is easier to use. Just my opinion from reading posts in LQ for a few months.

Hope you'll stick around and become a Linux guru!!!

Sorry about it. u misunderstood me.... I was reffering to your own post when I said "I'm tired of it." By that I ment windows. I already have linux in one of my boxes. As soon as I'm done with my big exam that is comming up, I'll install in the second box also. I already have it partitioned with partition magic in windows because then it will be much less confucing to me when double booting...

-Nukem-