Hi Guys I have to load linux for the first time on my PC and mine is AMD Athlon with FAT32 Win98 and Windows XP. I need suggestion for the product which will give 1-2-3 Click, Wow Linux Installed kind of features, as i don't want to take much risk while installing and I have lot of valuable files on my PC. Last time I had tried to installed Red Hat with help of my friend(network administrator) but their was some problem I could not recollect what was the problem. Is it that you should be of Expert Level to Install Linux by yourself I needed and cakewalk for installation for the any Linux vanilla product. Thanks Bye
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First usin partition magic or any other similar software allot some space (upto 5 GB) for linux. Now either red Hat 8 or Mandrake 9.0 will be more than useful to u. Both are very simple to install abnd should not create ant problems for you
arun kumar arunkw@yahoo.com wrote:Hi Guys I have to load linux for the first time on my PC and mine is AMD Athlon with FAT32 Win98 and Windows XP. I need suggestion for the product which will give 1-2-3 Click, Wow Linux Installed kind of features, as i don't want to take much risk while installing and I have lot of valuable files on my PC. Last time I had tried to installed Red Hat with help of my friend(network administrator) but their was some problem I could not recollect what was the problem. Is it that you should be of Expert Level to Install Linux by yourself I needed and cakewalk for installation for the any Linux vanilla product. Thanks Bye
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On WIN XP, you can delete an empty partition from Disk Management. You can then try installing any good distro like Red Hat or Mandrake. SuSE is also very easy to install. You can try that also. Before installing make sure all your hardware is supported, especially the Graphics & Sound cards. If you have an internal(win)modem, check that out too. During the installation all you need is a little understanding of file systems & a lot of common sense. Bhaskar Ghose
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The GNU/Linuxer writes:
On WIN XP, you can delete an empty partition from Disk Management. You can then try installing any good distro like Red Hat or Mandrake. SuSE is also very easy to install. You can try that also. Before installing
Does that mean other distros like debian,slackware and gentoo are not good?? Just wondering. In the FLOSS world, it is sometimes hazardous to label one distro better than other. What is liked by one and serves one better may be absolutely useless for another !!!. Just a thought.
Vinayak Hegde APGDST Student NCST-JUHU
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Does that mean other distros like debian,slackware and gentoo are not good??
Chill, debian should have a fair chance of included as a simple to use distro, but slackware and gentoo? you had to be joking to call gentoo user friendly ("good" is a different issue, I am speaking about user friendly here). I would suggest anyone to use Debian or Redhat to any newcomer since both are a very well finished distributions and they are original distributions (unlike Mandrake - taken from RHL).
Just wondering. In the FLOSS world, it is sometimes hazardous to label one distro better than other. What is liked by one and serves one better may be absolutely useless for another !!!. Just a thought.
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 12:15:58PM -0700, vinayak_hegde@softhome.net wrote:
Does that mean other distros like debian,slackware and gentoo are not good?? Just wondering. In the FLOSS world, it is sometimes hazardous to label one distro better than other. What is liked by one and serves one better may be absolutely useless for another !!!. Just a thought.
You are right in trying to support all the alternatives available in the FLOSS world. But remember that this approach, although it has a good intention, actually tends to confuse and even frighten away the newbies. For a newbie into the free software community, any choice is good as any other - getting started is more important.
If we do try to compare the distros, realise that Red Hat is really easy to use and widely supported in India, thanks to a certain popular computer magazine. By "supported", I mean the presence of a user community that understands issues in that distros, although many of them may be using some other distro they like better.
The point to remember is that free software is no longer a dominion of the geek. GNU/Linux is becoming more and more popular, which means more and more people will be looking for answers that work; they don't want to be told to do it on their own. So for myself, I stick to Red Hat whenever someone asks me "which distro". Later on, if the person is really interested in getting deeper into this stuff, he will have explored other possibilities on his own, thanks to the large amount of community interaction involved.
Sameer.
PS: IMHO, Debian has a long way to go before it becomes the common man's desktop. Red Hat is good.
Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe writes:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 12:15:58PM -0700, vinayak_hegde@softhome.net wrote:
Does that mean other distros like debian,slackware and gentoo are not good?? Just wondering. In the FLOSS world, it is sometimes hazardous to label one distro better than other. What is liked by one and serves one better may be absolutely useless for another !!!. Just a thought.
You are right in trying to support all the alternatives available in the FLOSS world. But remember that this approach, although it has a good intention, actually tends to confuse and even frighten away the newbies. For a newbie into the free software community, any choice is good as any other - getting started is more important.
I absolutely agree with you that user friendliness is not debian/slackware/gentoo's forte. I was just suggesting people on this group to be a little judicious while labelling distros and software. Sometime ago, someone said Yoper was the best distro. The fact is "one size does fit all". That is the only point I am trying to make. Maybe I was a little out of context here. Chill!!! No hard feelings.
Vinayak Hegde APGDST Student NCST-JUHU
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, arun kumar wrote:
Hi Guys I have to load linux for the first time on my PC and
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by yourself I needed and cakewalk for installation for the any Linux vanilla product.
Hi,
Try Knoppix, you don't have to install at all. just boot off the CDROM. When you think you are comfortable with using Linux, you can do a actual install. Simplest precautionary things you can do include checking whether most of your hardware is compatible with Linux or not. See here for Red Hat's Hardware Compatibility List, http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/ Also read installation guides of any distribution you choose to install in future before you go for the installation.
Best regards, Rajesh
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See here for Red Hat's Hardware Compatibility List, http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/
it should have been incompatibility list which wud have been far more shorter and simpler to search and manage :)
regards harsh
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Hi Try using the PCQuest Linux 8. I installed it 2 weeks ago on my PC without any problem. In fact, it was actually close to 1-2-3 Click, WOW kind of experiance that you are asking for. Ofcourse, many other distros give you the same thing. The advantage of PCQuest CD (as i explained in an earlier mail) is that it is modified from RedHat Distro to include things we generally want, like Cyberoam client for Cable Internet, MSN and Yahoo Messangers and Accounting Software GNUCash.
But also keep in mind what others have told you, re. checking out the hardware list.
If you already have a separate partition which you can make use of for loading GNU\Linux, then it is a better option. I have always used a separate harddisk or an unused / spare partition of a harddisk. I was perhaps lucky to have a spare partition available. During the installation, you may need to further divide the available partition into one for the swap space and the other for the linux file systems like ext3. Alternate, you can keep it in FAT or VFAT format if you want that part of the drive to be accessed by windows.
I have limited experience and expertise in Linux, so I hope anyone reading it will point out any errors in the above para. Regards Saswata
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Hi Guys I have to load linux for the first time on my PC and mine is AMD Athlon with FAT32 Win98 and Windows XP. I need suggestion for the product which will give 1-2-3 Click, Wow Linux Installed kind of features, as i don't want to take much risk while installing and I have lot of valuable files on my PC. Last time I had tried to installed Red Hat with help of my friend(network administrator) but their was some problem I could not recollect what was the problem. Is it that you should be of Expert Level to Install Linux by yourself I needed and cakewalk for installation for the any Linux vanilla product. Thanks Bye
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