Picking up on some things you wrote I have the following thoughs: "old Fuji" and "10GB" Does this system actually have a DVD drive or is it a CDROM drive? You will need to burn the distribution files off to CD or DVD whichever you have support for. Make sure your BIOS is set to boot from CD/DVD Early on in the Fedora setup you will be asked what type of system you want to install. Choose Desktop/workstation and you will have both an email client and a web browser and a suite of Office tools on par with MS-Works. (not as good as MS-Office but if you don't need things like Access or Excel's OLAP support then you are fine) Before you make the switch take a few minutes to test drive firefox web browser for windows. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Also, installing the google tool bar and running both spybot and adaware can make even IE very safe from spyware too. Good luck ----- Original Message ----- From: "horse" <no-reply-gw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 1:10 PM Subject: Formatting HDD > I am fed up with internet malware and have been told that a Linux-based program gets little or none. > I loaded the complete DVD of Fedora Core 4 on my old Fujitsu laptop. It went smoothly. The HDD is 10Gb and FC4 loaded about 5Gb! > > Most of it is superfluous to my requirements. I intend using FC4 on the laptop as the only internet-facing computer in my 3-computer network until I become more comfortable with FC4. Who knows, I'd eventually like to completely migrate away from the evil empire (Microsoft). > > My questions: > 1. How do I format the HDD so I can start with a fresh and minimal installation. > 2. I only want to access the internet, use Fedora's version of Outlook as an email client, use Fedora's 'Word' program, and use Adobe Reader. > > Your help would be appreciated. > TIA, > Horse > > > > > -- > This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org > http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=68020&topic_id=16935&forum=25#forumpost68020 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
