Posted on 12/28/2004 7:18:09 PM PST by edchambers
This is my first post so forgive me if I violated some protocall by not posting to "Breaking News"
Ok, so I tried Knoppix, pretty amazing stuff, a full OS that runs from a CD and I liked it so.. I decide to install it on a partition on my hard drive.I followed the instructions from the Knoppix website and I think I was successfull.The Lilo boot screen shows up gives me a choice of a couple or three versions of Linux and my Windows 98se installation.The 98se partition still boots but when I boot Linux it prompts me for a username and a password which I supply then it stops at a prompt that looks like myusername~$_ I know I'm supposed to type some command here but which of the over 3000 linux commands is it?
File: Mandrakelinux-10.1-Official-Download-DVD.i586.iso 2124868 KB has been downloading, fast.
I didn't know if I needed the MD5 checksums.
No problems. I would use a partitioning program to create unpartitioned space on the hard drive to make the install easier. This can be done during the Linux install though, by doing custom partitioning and resizing your Windows partition.
Just be very careful, and backup all your important files in Windows before doing this just in case. Don't be afraid, just be cautious....I am.
Thanks KoRn.
Anytime!
They're cheap now.
http://pcclub.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=A1547006
Sony's are made by Liteon
Well I kinda knew that wouldn't work, this time I deleted the primary Dos partition created a new one and went for the reformat/reinstall.That ought to work,I may try this again some day if I can find a more user friendly Linux for Dummies install.
*nix has man (as in manual). "man bash" or "man fstab".
Yes. fdisk can't delete linux partitions that are created in the EXT DOS partition. The easiest way I know how do do it is to start an install of linux and when the disk partitioning section comes up delete all linux partitions and then reboot before you go any further.
As they said earlier in the thread Mandrake is a good one for beginners (and advanced if/when you get there). It's a little bit on the bleeding edge so it isn't as stable as say Debian Woody but it does real well at hardware support. Novell/Suse and Redhat are also good for beginners if you don't mind spending a little. They used to have a distro that was called Lindows that was supposed to be real good for people the were used to windows but I don't know what happened to them.
Even if Mandrake is free it is well worth the money to join the Mandrake club. The support and free downloads make it worth it.
Thanks but for now I'm working on a new project."bullet proof" Windows.What I plan on doing, and I'm about halfway done, is I split my hard drive in half and once I get the OS set up the way I want it I'll copy the whole thing to my logical drive.I also am in the process of downloading all my free security programs to the logical drive where I'll install them to the main drive that way the set-up programs will be handy if I need to do a reinstall.The only thing I haven't quite figured out is how I can reinstall the OS from the logical drive,I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
Mepis..."Point and Click Linux" www.mepis.org
I have this on my laptop and one of my work computers. Good stuff, and easy to use.
Also, for a lower resource system, "Beatrix Linux...Linux that Purrs" www.watsky.net
I'm running Beatrix on three of my work computers...200Mhz, 128 mb ram, 2gig hard drives. Its only a 180 MB download. Spartan, but easily expandable with apt-get.
I like both of these systems a lot.
Beatrix is really good.
I haven't tried point and click yet.
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