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| 56843 | 2002-06-24 03:25:00 | Hi all. I plan to install a Linux OS with the intention of dual booting NT4 & Linux - NT will be the preferred OS, so I want to use the ntldr\boot.ini scenario for startup. I'm thinking SuSe for my Linux, but - any recommendations regarding Linux 'versions' would be most welcome. Ideallly, the easiest one to install would be the best looking, but hey - I don't know anything about Linux. The favourites seem to be redhat, SuSe, Mandrake, Debian......like I said - all & any recommendations, tips,advice would be most welcome. Thanks, Nick |
nick (601) | ||
| 56844 | 2002-06-24 03:45:00 | i got mandrake 8.2 recently, it's easy to install, seems pretty nice to use, with reasonable support for newbies. you should be able to find out a lot of stuff using google and searching for "linux distribution comparisons" or something of that nature. you can use lilo instead of the nt boot loader i believe. when you install mandrake it sets it all up for ya. also, i would go for GNOME as your desktop rather than KDE or the others to start off with. It's a little better looking, has nicer feel. personal thing though. |
loser (538) | ||
| 56845 | 2002-06-24 04:01:00 | I guess it is a matter of perspective, but I find it easier to use LILO as the boot manager than the NT boot loader. Have set up a number of PCs with RedHat 7.0 and Win2k in this manner with no problems. | JohnD (509) | ||
| 56846 | 2002-06-24 04:31:00 | Nice to see more people wanting to use Linux. However, you're looking at a not totally straightforward installation. It is not user-friendly. MS don't want to share computers with others. However it can be done. It's even been documented. I take it that you have not yet got a set of Linux installation CDs, so you won't have the documentation. It is all on-line. There are mirrors in NZ, so I'll give you a reading list. Start at: dunedin.lug.net.nz . There is a very good book in the Guides section: Installation and Getting Started . It's a few years old, but it is well worth reading, to get a feel for how Linux does things. Then in the same site ../docs/ldp/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html , and Multiboot-with-LILO.html will give you most of what you need to know. It will be worth a look at ../docs/ldp/HOWTO/Linux+Windows-HOWTO/ As a general rule, look at the HOWTOs to learn about anything in Linux. The people who write them have done it. They're not paid to gloss over problems. They have solved them, or have learned enough to advise people to avoid them. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 56847 | 2002-06-24 22:42:00 | Thanks very much to all who responded - it's definitely my intention to seriously read up before attempting my first Linux install. I've found quite a few notes on dual booting NT + redhat (although I really think SuSe sounds like a good OS). NT is my primary OS, already triple booting with win2000 pro and XP pro & I'm comfortable with that, so I'd feel easier using windows to boot. I have reserved an area of free space (4gb, unpartitioned, unformatted) for Linux, so I think, if I'm careful and RTF instructions that are posted around and about, it should go OK. Thanks again to all who responded with advice and information. cheers, nick |
nick (601) | ||
| 56848 | 2002-06-25 04:58:00 | Suse is the same OS. There are different distributions. Red Hat and Mandrake are more popular, and probably be easier to get [i] apt /i] up on. apt looks as if it will be the answer to the dependency problems which occur when loading applications. http://apt.freshrpms.net | Graham L (2) | ||
| 56849 | 2002-06-26 04:12:00 | Sorry, yes, you are oh so right. What I should have said (and what I meant) was "by all accounts, SuSe is a good version\distribution\flavour <take your pick> of the OS they call, frankly, Linux". I'll probably end up with redhat because it's cheaper and there seems to be more easily available documentation - although I still think SuSe sounds good. Nice logo, too. I don't have a fast enough modem connection to download the free files - although praise be to those absolutely SPLENDID people at telecom for even considering to allow those of us who don't live within 1 kilometre of the Auckland CBD a phone line that can carry data at all, no matter how utterly pathetic the speed. |
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