Installing Linux for the first time (& dual boot)

[Tribal-Phoenix]

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 ...

 

[thmandan22]

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

Those should help you.

 

[Tribal-Phoenix]

Thanks man

 

[Tribal-Phoenix]

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

 

[Nodsu]

Erm yes they do..

You can use arbitrary resolutions with X.

 

[thmandan22]

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

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.

 

[Tribal-Phoenix]

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

 

[Phantasm66]

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.

 

[Phantasm66]

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.

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

 

[spaceinvader]

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

 

[Tribal-Phoenix]

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.

 

[svtcobra]

Phantasm..you still stomping around in this thread?

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

 

[Phantasm66]

...yes, when will it ever end?

 

[kaymastah]

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!

 

[murfielee]

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

 

[murfielee]

Hellllllppppppppp!!

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

 

[Miiku]

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.

 

[Phantasm66]

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

 

[TDawg]

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?

 

[Didou]

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

 

[houman]

hi,
I have downloaded Fedora core 5 DVD.iso but it is not boot able !! shall I do anything to make it bootable?
thanks

 

[ThePhantomPain]

hi,
I have downloaded Fedora core 5 DVD.iso but it is not boot able !! shall I do anything to make it bootable?
thanks

Well check your BIOS to see if your DVD device is first in bootorder.
Make sure you burned the ISO-file with an burningsuite that has support for burning ISO on DVD and make sure your device can even boot from DVD.

 

[Phantasm66]

The DVD ISO is absolutely bootable so follow the steps in the previous post. You need to burn the contents of the ISO file to a DVD, not the ISO file itself, i.e. once you are finished you wind up with a DVD that has this directory listing:

Fedora, images, isolinux, repodata, stylesheet-images, (assorted other files)

NOT:

FC-5-i386-DVD.iso

If all you have on your DVD is the one file, FC-5-i386-DVD.iso, then you did not burn the DVD correctly, you dragged the .iso file onto your layout, you did not burn the DVD from the iso, which gives you a DVD with the directories I listed above.

Once you have this DVD go into your BIOS and ensure that you have selected the CD-ROM drive as the primary boot device.

 

[drawls31]

wow,I'm trying to keep up.

 

[ismo_84]

it is the first time for me in the forum
and i read about linux and i want to install on my hard .......... but i have some problems with installation
when i run graphic mode my screen tell me out of frequency and screen turn off and i shouid make restart again then i follow instruction and i type this command and i do not know what it mean ( linux lowre) and i enter to installation and i complete it and when i restart my computer and when i enter to linux give me dos screen and give informations and on the right side give me ok then my screen turned off not my computer and again i should restart again till i gave up
and the scond problem when i want to remove linux give me boot loader and i can not enter to my windows again as i set up windows on drive c
then i should to set up windows again
and can u tell me what type of linux should i install on my computer as i have knoppix and red hat core 1 and mandriva-one-2007-free-gnome and Ubuntu 6.06 .
and these are my description to my computer ;
hard 80 GB
ram 256
processor 2.4 intel celeron
s3 pro savage ddr built in
monitor LG 17
ASUS mother board