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| Thread ID: 59165 | 2005-06-23 17:43:00 | Wish to give Linux a try, what are the steps? | Renmoo (66) | Press F1 |
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| 366579 | 2005-06-25 03:41:00 | Fair enough :D And yes.. most of it does. |
Myth (110) | ||
| 366580 | 2005-06-25 04:06:00 | Thanks Graham and Vinref, that clears it up a bit more for me. I am interested in one thing, I know Knoppix is a live cd and therefore loads into memory. I also know it has a partitioning tool. Is this partitioning tool non-destructive when resizing (like Partition Magic). I use Fedora Core 4... What size should these partitions be: /, /var, /etc, /tmp? As mentioned before, I have linux on a 10GB / partition, a 1GB swap, and 20+ GB /home; as well as a 20GB vfat all on an 80GB harddrive. How should I repartition the drive? I am inclined to agree with Graham L. You can repartition an existing installation of Fedora, but I highly discourage it unless you do a full back-up (actually, just /etc and /home). You cannot do this easily with Knoppix. The easiest and cleanest route is to backup and do a full reinstall. Do you have the install disks? As for recommended sizes, I had a look at the Fedora site and it is vague on the topic. I think Fedora does not like you to change from the default. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 366581 | 2005-06-25 04:40:00 | Help me... :help: | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 366582 | 2005-06-25 04:50:00 | Oh yes, James . It was your thread, wasn't it? :D Oh dear . :thumbs: Try a Knoppix live CD first . If you can get that for $1 at DSE, it will let you see if you like the feel of Linux . It won't damage your Windows system . It just uses the CPU and peripherals . You might want to save the settings for Knoppix on a floppy or USB pendrive, but that's not compulsory . 32GB would be plenty for a Linux installation . Repartitioning always involves some risk . Sometimes users make mistakes . ;) See if you like Linux before you dive into that . It might pay to start another thread if you want to go ahead . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 366583 | 2005-06-25 05:01:00 | Yes, like Graham L writes, try Knoppix first. Just insert into your CD or DVD, and reboot. Give it a good run - use all the apps or equivalents, that you normally use in Windows: Firefox/Opera Gaim (IRC) OpenOffice/Abiword (word processor) XMMS/Amarok (audio) Mplayer (DVD player) If you run into any problems, post them. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 366584 | 2005-06-25 05:13:00 | Is it the same, Morphix and Mepis? | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 366585 | 2005-06-25 05:27:00 | Bit late now, but a cheat way I use it is a tool called VMWare what it does is essentially creates an emulator. it creats an Xgb (You decide how big) file to use as the HD, and allocate a certain amount of RAM. You can also use the host's floppy drive and CD drive, or alternatively an .iso image The beauty is it's foolproof. To the guest OS, it's a completly seperate machine. It sees the HD file as an empty hard drive, so you can go wild and use all of the file, the host PC won't care. For all intents and purposes, it's it's own PC. Best thing is there's no messy partitioning needed, and you can have multiple OSs running (Like multiple live CDs to test) at once |
Edward (31) | ||
| 366586 | 2005-06-25 05:28:00 | No. Morphix and Mepis are different. Although I recommended Knoppix, you can try any live-CD really. They do not touch your hard-drive or anything therein, so they are fairly safe to use. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 366587 | 2005-06-25 05:32:00 | Help me . . . :help:The installer of almost any distro will give you "/" , "/swap" , and "/home" by default . While there are sometimes reasons for dividing further, it is not a good idea unless you know exactly what you are doing . /home needs seperation so that if you toss out one distro and replace it with another you will keep your files and settings . The installer will put everthing not given specific alternative space into the "/" partition Flaptop is set up with a 30 GB HDD . Thats just under 20 for /home , almost 1 GB for /swap (seeing i don't have enough RAM and tend to leave 20 windows open) and the rest for "/" My /home partition is full as i collect . oggs & . mp3s . /swap is probably bigger than it need be . / (the root partition) has room on it . My previous system was set up on a 80 GB HDD with a seperate extra partiton i imaginatively called "/share" that took up over half the drive and provided clearly defined space for files openly shared on the network for my other machines to see . I had a second 120 GB HDD for /home as i had collected over 45 GB of music (12,000 titles) and more than a few videos . The options are endless, but you will not need to do any of this manually at first because the installer will suggest appropriate and simple ways of chopping up the Linux section of your HDD, which i suspect will be minamal (at first ;) ) |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 366588 | 2005-06-25 05:42:00 | My vote for a live CD is still Mepis, i have tried various versions of knoppix, and find Mepis a tad better, plus its a lot harder to install knoppix if you like it, where as Mepis has this option built into the same CD. Having said that, knoppix is a good system and a worthwhile learning expererment. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
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