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Geek Culture / Dual boot linux.

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Osiris
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Posted: 18th Aug 2006 05:07
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What do you guys reccomend to do it with, and what dist to install?

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Oddmind
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what do you want Linux for? What will be your main goal?

I run Gentoo, and the dual boot proggy that most use is GRUB.

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Alquerian
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Posted: 18th Aug 2006 08:07
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Personally, I am a fedora fan. It has a lot of versatility and options, it is also fairly easy to get up and running. There are so many varieties nowadays that you really want to figure out what you want before you make a decision, or if you have the time, download and install different varieties until you find one that suits you best. I jumped from distro to distro before I finally settled on Redhat, then Fedora. Gentoo is a great distro as well.

When I was a noob, drake appealed to me. Once I learned a bit more I found a great distaste with it.

I don't know if they still use LILO (Linux Loader or something like that), but the last time I dual-booted os'es I used Grub.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
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indi
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when starting out with Linux / Unix, I prefer a separate machine, or a 2nd hard drive.

partitioning can be tricky for the new user, if your windows machine is critical I wouldnt dual boot.

lilo and grub are the usual boot managers around, I think the distro usually dictates this.

there will be a time when you heed these words if it all goes pear shaped.

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Osiris
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Well I have two HD's and the one I was going to partion has more space than I need right now, so I have an extra 245 GB's and I wanted to learn more about Linux, so what do you reccomend for just messing around, I have a liveboot cd but I became bored of it when it didnt recognise my wireless card.

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Lucifer
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6104490811311898236&q=windows

found this once when i was looking for videos on google...

Tíhí..
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indi
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Posted: 19th Aug 2006 02:53
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suse has a good cross over for windows users, open suse is free compared to the corporate edition.

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Osiris
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Ok, but with the linux, well I already formated my HD, when I partion it for linux will it get all pissy, because ive never done this before.

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Oddmind
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you need a guide to follow if you dont know squat. dont expect to recieve one on one time, its alot of information and theres bound to be a faq somewhere.

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Osiris
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Well, im sure i can figure most of it out, isnt there just one where you burn an ISO onto a disk and it does its thing from there?

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ionstream
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I moved from Gentoo to Archlinux. Gentoo was really making me mad. Archlinux turned out to be good though, easy but less customizable install (which is fine for me). It took about 30 minutes to install from start to finish, but I wouldn't recommend it for a beginner.

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Steve J
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I would recommend SuSe for a beginner. Mandriva would be pushing it, mainly as the chances are that the average user would have to install drivers. Once you get more advanced, systems like debian are a natural choice (go wireless network setup! With wpa-2!), and then you should try your hand at linux development. I tried it, not to my taste really, but hey, never know=).

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Osiris
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Ah yes, and sorry I forgot about this, but I wanted one of the free open source distros.

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