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| Thread ID: 84822 | 2007-11-20 02:45:00 | Anybody Want A Piece Of This? (PCLOS) | SurferJoe46 (51) | Press F1 |
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| 613210 | 2007-11-20 22:35:00 | Once again I reinforce:Install windows first.Mention of primary partitions and Grub will confuse this guy.Most Newbies trying linux for the first time have Windows installed already and then it is more or less straight forward to Install linux.OR they have a bit of experiance with linux installs.Yes, with one small problem - the last Linux issue SurferJoe had was due to partition sizes. Of a 40GB drive he said he'd installed XP on an 18GB partition, and left the rest for Linux. Come time to install Linux, the partitioning step failed. I took a look at the system for him via ssh and guess what - one 40GB partition, leaving only 8MB of free space. Installing Linux doesn't work so well when you only have one block of disk space to play with, and the partition can't be resized. You're right that it's usually easier for a new user to install Windows first. SurferJoe, I think your primary issue is not reading the instructions carefully enough, or not looking at what you're doing properly. If you follow the steps correctly, things should work just fine. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 613211 | 2007-11-21 01:19:00 | This unit: [INDENT]P-4, 2.3ghz, 128kRAM, 40g hdd, Foxxcon MOBO which believe it or not HAD XP Home on it. I am failry sure that you will find the minimum specs for PCLOS is 256M RAM - I think from my own experience you can boot the live CD with 128M but the install will not complete properly/goes horribly slow etc. Get more RAM if you want to proceed. |
johnd (85) | ||
| 613212 | 2007-11-21 02:06:00 | I am failry sure that you will find the minimum specs for PCLOS is 256M RAM - I think from my own experience you can boot the live CD with 128M but the install will not complete properly/goes horribly slow etc . Get more RAM if you want to proceed . I'll buy that for the Foxxcon/P4/128kRAM . . . but the Dell/P3/384kRAM should take it well I think . Neither do . What I am getting here is a book on what not to do . . . but I shall persevere . :groan: |
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