How to install Linux?

Discussion in 'Software' started by Caliph, Jul 19, 2003.

  1. Caliph

    Caliph Private E-2

    Hi guys,

    I have installed in my machine win98, win200 and winxp in the same partition. I have kept a 5GB space in my HDD un partioned. What I want to know is that if I can install Linux in this machine? If possible then how am I to proceed with it? I wonder if any of you guys can help me with this problem?

    Thanks in advance to all who will reply to this......
     
    Caliph, Jul 19, 2003
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  2. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Simply put the Linux CD in your drive and boot from it and follow directions. You are given the option to pick which partition to go to. Linux's installer is not as friendly and easy as Microsoft, but as long as you have some basic computer experience (especially making partitions and installing multiple os's) you will have no problems.
     
    Major Attitude, Jul 19, 2003
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  3. Joe

    Joe =CENSORED=

    which linux are you installing?
     
    Joe, Jul 19, 2003
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  4. Caliph

    Caliph Private E-2

    I am trying to install RH 7.0 . I know I just have to follow the indtructions. But I would like to know about the part where I have to do the configuring of LILO.
     
    Caliph, Jul 19, 2003
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  5. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Hmmm, maybe Joe can help you more then. I simply installed RedHat to a partition and used a bootmanager (OSL 2000) to load an operating system by default or choice. Im not a Linux guru, so not sure where your getting stuck? I do recall the setup allowing me to choose the default OS to load, which I made Win XP and could load RH on boot if needed. Other variations of Linux didnt do that, so I liked that about Red Hat.
     
    Major Attitude, Jul 20, 2003
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  6. Vlad902

    Vlad902 Guest

    First off, I HIGHLY recommend updating to a newer version to install, older versions have old programs with vulns (*cough*RH 6.2*cough*wu-ftpd is not fun). When it comes to there it will explain it
     
    Vlad902, Jul 20, 2003
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  7. Joe

    Joe =CENSORED=

    Unliekly tim, since i've only ever used mandrake, and i couldnb't get debain to install. On the linux sites they give quiet detailed installation and use of manuals
     
    Joe, Jul 21, 2003
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  8. †T-Rex †

    †T-Rex † Specialist

    I've installed Linux 7.1 and 8.0, and I have to warn you... that you had better make sure when it comes to selecting the swap file and such, that you don't overwrite your Windows partition. It's not that hard to do, and a guy in my class did that very thing about 10 minutes after the instructor had warned us about it... heheheheh. But yeah... you can do it, but you'll probably have to use a boot disk if you wanna go to linux ... Microsoft doesn't seem to want you to have linux as an option... that's what happened to me, anyway. Also... and somewhat a good thing, Microsoft will not recognize the Linux partition. But the bad thing about this, is I think it might mess with scanning with antivirus programs... I could be wrong though. I've only used Norton's, so maybe some other antivirus would be better. All in all... you most certainly could install Linux ... just let Linux format the unpartitioned space and install...
     
    †T-Rex †, Jul 21, 2003
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  9. Vlad902

    Vlad902 Guest

    Linux 7.1 and 8.0? What distro? Linux is a kernel, not an OS. No, it will not mess with the virus scan, actually I saw a linux program that scanned the windows partition for viruses :).
     
    Vlad902, Jul 21, 2003
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  10. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Im guessing he means RedHat (which your correct, you want 9) im telling you, try Suse Linux, youll be suprised, Mandrake is pretty good too. All said, RedHat is really good, but i think Suse and Mandrake make it easier for less experienced users. All now require you to be the worlds stupidest person without reading ability to hit the wrong partition. You want to go click, click, click without reading, you get what you get , otherwise its well explained now. :)
     
    Major Attitude, Jul 21, 2003
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  11. Vlad902

    Vlad902 Guest

    Never installed SuSE, Mandrake or RH, I used RH for like 10 minutes at my dads work though, the only distro I have ever installed was Slackware, now I just use *BSD :) You can install any distro as long as you just RTFM/STFW, and actually do what they say too ;). And on what version did RH become graphical (on the install not XFree86), I've only had expierence with shell/ncurses installs.
     
    Vlad902, Jul 21, 2003
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  12. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    No idea when it became graphical. I guess my point was he could try and install it and back off at any point he was unsure prior to actual install without doing any damage.
     
    Major Attitude, Jul 21, 2003
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