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| John Roycroft 2005-10-05, 9:03 pm |
| I am new to Linux. Can anyone show me a site were I can get specific info
on how to dual boot my machine? AMD. Just got it a couple of days ago. Is
redhat the way to go for a beginner? What should I consider before doing
this? Any recommendations?
Thanks in Advance..
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| inty shedu 2005-10-06, 2:49 am |
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Hello,
I find red hat very nice. Fedora core 4 is the latest version.
There are a lot of nice web sites for linux.
Try the below.
1. www.tldp.org
2. http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com (nice web site to learn how to
network home pc's)
3. http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/ (nice for online books)
Hope you find what you are looking for.
inty.....
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:48:58 GMT, "John Roycroft"
<jroycroft@stx.rr.com> wrote:
>I am new to Linux. Can anyone show me a site were I can get specific info
>on how to dual boot my machine? AMD. Just got it a couple of days ago. Is
>redhat the way to go for a beginner? What should I consider before doing
>this? Any recommendations?
>
>Thanks in Advance..
>
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| Brian Brunner 2005-10-06, 2:49 am |
| On Thu, 06 Oct 2005, inty shedu wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
You can get CentOS and WhiteBox version of RHEL 4.1; "latest" is not
necessarily "best" for a newbie trying to figure things out. You can
download the ISO's on your windows system and burn your own CDs to
install from, then use those CDs to install Linux. That is what I did
most recently.
Also, you can look for cheapbytes.com which sells exactly the same thing
as RHEL/FC CD sets for darn cheap. You don't get RH support with this,
but we don't know exactly what you want. Odds are you don't need RH
support and can get the help you need here.
[vbcol=seagreen]
Install windows first, then Linux. This is because Linux boot loaders
know how to share with windows, but windows does not know how to share
with Linux.
Do you have a separate partition or separate disk for the Linux install?
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| Stan Brown 2005-10-07, 2:56 am |
| On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:48:58 GMT in linux.redhat.install, John
Roycroft favored us with...
> I am new to Linux. Can anyone show me a site were I can get specific info
> on how to dual boot my machine? AMD. Just got it a couple of days ago. Is
> redhat the way to go for a beginner? What should I consider before doing
> this? Any recommendations?
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linu...-w2k-HOWTO.html
However, the proper setup of the partitions is not obvious, and some
installs (e.g. Fedora Core 3) will get it wrong. If you post your
present partition setup I can advise you (or perhaps someone who
knows more than I will chime in).
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"You find yourself amusing, Blackadder."
"I try not to fly in the face of public opinion."
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| John Roycroft 2005-10-07, 2:56 am |
| C:88.4 gigs D:4.68gigs
windows is on C:
D: is used as recovery disc. It has everything my pc comes with. Restore.
thanks for the help,
J
"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
news:MPG.1dafb9565153bf3898993f@news.individual.net...
> On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:48:58 GMT in linux.redhat.install, John
> Roycroft favored us with...
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> http://www.geocities.com/epark/linu...-w2k-HOWTO.html
>
> However, the proper setup of the partitions is not obvious, and some
> installs (e.g. Fedora Core 3) will get it wrong. If you post your
> present partition setup I can advise you (or perhaps someone who
> knows more than I will chime in).
>
> --
> Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
> http://OakRoadSystems.com/
> "You find yourself amusing, Blackadder."
> "I try not to fly in the face of public opinion."
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