I m downloading linux from ftp-linux.cc.... and i m downloading the first
two packages.. can someone tell me if more are needed for a CS major
student.. Also my laptop has XP os.. I need to partition my hard drive
into XP and redhat.. can someone help or assist me doing these tasks?
Thankx..

Jatin Patel
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Email: gte716w@prism.gatech.edu

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 Jatin Thakor Patel wrote:

>I m downloading linux from ftp-linux.cc.... and i m downloading the
>first two packages..

First two pkgs? Get the all three ISOs.

shrike-i386-disc1.iso
shrike-i386-disc2.iso
shrike-i386-disc3.iso

>can someone tell me if more are needed for a CS major student..

Should be enough. You can get the src rpms on an ad hoc basis.

>Also my laptop has XP os.. I need to partition my hard drive into XP
>and redhat.. can someone help or assist me doing these tasks? Thankx..

Sure. Just read the howtos and if you have any specific problem, post it
here and someone who knows would help you.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html

and search for "windows xp linux dual boot" on www.google.com

GL
V.