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| Thread ID: 126670 | 2012-09-11 02:44:00 | Linux Questions | Nick G (16709) | Press F1 |
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| 1300321 | 2012-09-13 22:13:00 | Yup, I'll be back again and again and again, guaranteed. Also guaranteed I'll get really helpful support here that solves my questions, and a couple of months in I'll be zipping along linux wondering how I ever thought it would be so hard. If your point is windows will never have that issue, show someone a win8 pc and watch them struggle. Of course I enjoy that learning - its the reason that I'm on the forums and trying linux after having given win8 a go. Good on you Nick. That's how it's been for me, from time to time the last few years. There are some real helpful knowledgeable people here. I've tried quite a few Linux things; obliterated the odd hard drive in the early days of dual booting:eek: (Mandrake, Red Hat and Debian - all since got easier - mind you I don't bother about Mandriva or Fedora now). I built a Gentoo install, just about had me around the twist - but I got there, once again thanks to the help I received from this forum. Recently I've built a couple of servers running Debian (actually Proxmox on one of them for virtualisation) and that's worked really well. I don't use Linux so much for desktop stuff, but I do think it's fine - Ubuntu or Linux Mint would be my current picks. Linux has definitely got a lot easier in the last few years and the comment you made about the struggle people have with Win8, is a case in point and I'd go so far as to say that Linux can be easier to install than Windows:) Linux projects can be absolutely fascinating and playing around with the command line (I sure am not an expert here though) a bit is great. Down the track a bit, if you've got an old computer, you could install Debian on it and use it as a backup server etc. then connect to it via filezilla and putty. |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 1300322 | 2012-09-13 22:17:00 | Ok, have managed to get the setup started. I select my partition, and have an option to make the either /windows or /dos What is this, and which one do I pick? And there is also a box which says 'device for bootloader installation'. Which partition do I put this on? Cheers |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300323 | 2012-09-13 22:36:00 | It's basically asking "When you're in Linux, where do you wanna find your Windows partition". Just be *certain* that you're not installing it onto that partition though, be sure to read and re-read what you're about to do there. Put it on the primary partition :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1300324 | 2012-09-13 22:41:00 | It's basically asking "When you're in Linux, where do you wanna find your Windows partition". Just be *certain* that you're not installing it onto that partition though, be sure to read and re-read what you're about to do there. Put it on the primary partition :) So I install linux on my secondary partiton, but put to bootloader on my primary partition? And should the mount point be /windows or /dos? Cheers |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300325 | 2012-09-13 22:45:00 | www.linuxbsdos.com | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1300326 | 2012-09-13 23:47:00 | We have the same problem with both Windows AND Mac users, so I don't understand your point? The point is that he is a boring old fart. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1300327 | 2012-09-13 23:48:00 | Yup, I'll be back again and again and again, guaranteed. Also guaranteed I'll get really helpful support here that solves my questions, and a couple of months in I'll be zipping along linux wondering how I ever thought it would be so hard. If your point is windows will never have that issue, show someone a win8 pc and watch them struggle. Of course I enjoy that learning - its the reason that I'm on the forums and trying linux after having given win8 a go. :thumbs::thumbs: |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1300328 | 2012-09-14 00:03:00 | www.linuxbsdos.com Cheers, will have a look at that. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300329 | 2012-09-14 00:33:00 | The point is that he is a boring old fart. very clever, you did remember, and the pain still hurts doesn't it. |
sam m (517) | ||
| 1300330 | 2012-09-14 01:09:00 | Ok, my next question. I have the boot loader going on /dev/sda2, which is my primary partition where windows is. I have linux going on /dev/sda5. I go to click install. and get this. 'no root file system is defined. Please select one from the partitioning menu'. What??? :confused: |
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