Installing Linux for the first time (& dual boot)

Hye can any of u guyz help me burn that friging linux on the bootable cd i already wasted 4 cd's still doesnt work ...

http://linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/isofaq.html
http://linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/howtoburn.html

Those should help you.

Thanks man

YAY Linux Fedora Corr 3 rocks, too bad they dont have 1024x786 resolution for it thou.

Erm yes they do..

You can use arbitrary resolutions with X.

Thats only if they don't have your monitor supported or whatever. What you can do is select Default CRT or Default LCD and those resolutions should work. Had the same trouble and I was able to have 1280x1024 resolution using this.

yep already got it, so Fedora is it absolutely same as Linux , becasue i have downloaded some archives and their format is somethign liek tar.gz so i cant open them it seems to be using some other kind of files

open command prompt in directory file is in.

tar -zxvf tarball.tar.gz

(where tarball is filename)

go inside. If its source code, then you will do the following:

./configure
make
make_install

but refer to the README file inside, there might be some other kind of installer script.

Yeah, he might have to select a better monitor type.

0 to Full Debian in less than 20 minutes while surfung the net

Just go to www.knoppix.net and download the .ISO for the latest burn it open konsole and type in sudo knoppix-installer answer the questions apropreatly and in less than 20 minutes you will have a fully functional Debian system. Don't forget to scandisk/f and defrag first if you wanbt to do an HD install. Then just boot from knoppix best of all if you dont want to chance blowing your system away just boot from knoppix and you have a full live CD anyway. Best of all don't forget Knoppix has been voted Microsoft repair tool of the year! :haha: and Bill will never live that down! XP cant fix itself but LInux can! :grinthumb

Thanks for advice but i already did download knoppix and burned it on the cd, its a preety good tool i shal say , the thing i like is that if your win crashes u can at least copy your files from there by using knoppix, while in other linux versions you cant.

Phantasm..you still stomping around in this thread?

Good to see it..Longest thread Ive ever created.

...yes, when will it ever end?

Something for the daring ones...

Greetings and salutations to All,

Just noticed this rather lengthy thread and so I decided to throw a few words at it as well, as I have had some experience with multiboot systems (like the one I'm running now).

Why did I title it "for the daring ones" - because I wanted to get You guys into Gentoo - what I think is a superb distro. The thing with Gentoo is that many beginners find it rather difficult to install.
I believe it is a great experience and a real jump start into what Linux is and how it all works.

So, after you, my fellow TSpotters install that pesky MS based creation, and leave some space on your hard drive, go to gentoo.org and get the latest and greatest.

They have a great install howto (dont get scared by the length of it, as it is like that because they want to cover the ground for newbbies) at:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=install#doc_chap2

A great wiki:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Main_Page

and ever expanding forum:
http://forums.gentoo.org/


If you feel up for the challenge you will be blessed with:
- a cutting edge system that performs at its top
- a better understanding of GNU/Linux distro organization

Possible side effect is what I refer to as Gentoo fever A hard to dismiss feeling euphoria of squeezing every clock cycle out of your systems CPU.

and let's see now if we can get this thread furher...

Good Luck to u all!

Dual Boot XP and Linux (2 Separate Drives)

This is question for Mr. Vader. I do not have the option of doing a fresh install. I have an image for XP and one for linux. I have both drives in one system. Currently, XP automatically boots up. How do I make them dual boot? I've tried to figure out the ID of linux drive, but I must be doing something wrong. They are connected together (with cable select) I believe. Thanks. I did like your document though. :grinthumb

Hellllllppppppppp!!

Is there anyone out there that can answer my previous post? :suspiciou

murfielee:
I don't know about windoze, but you can use grub or lilo for that, and there are many howto's on how to configure both grub and lilo out there, i.e. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10 which gives a pretty good idea of how the bootloaders work.

Hope that helps a bit.

We've covered the switch to multiboot and finding the device name (i.e. /dev/hda4 ,etc) of your installations earlier in this thread.

ok I don't think I saw this question anywhere on this thread so I'm going to go ahead and ask it, I'm sorry if it's already been discussed but...I'm dual booting fedora core 4 and xp. I would rather use the xp boot loader rather than Grub. How do I go about doing that?

It's explained on the first page of this very same thread in this post.