Posted June 14, 200420 yr Is it safe installing a copy of linux on a diff portion of your HD? I want to mess around with it a little but I want the easiest possibly, then move on as I get used to it. What do you think
June 14, 200420 yr Do you have an old HD that works? If so...install on that...makes life waaaay more easier if you a n00b.
June 14, 200420 yr I think this thread is beyond my feeble computer comprehension, so I'm removing it from my mind.
June 14, 200420 yr NOES!!!11 WINODWS WILL FORMAT YU)R HARDDRIEV IF IT FIDNS ANOTHER OPERASTING SYSTEM ONO BOOT_UP!@#!! Seriously though, yeah. You can dual boot between windows/linux np. I had XP, 2k, 98, Red Hat, and Suse installed on the pc I was using during my Intro to Operating Systems class.
June 14, 200420 yr DONT INSTALL LINUX< ITS JUST ONE BIG VIRUS JOKE THAT HACKERS HAVE BEEN SPREADING AROUND THE INTERWAB FOR YEARS INORDER TO FOOL NEWBS INTO PUTTING A VIRUS ON THEIR OCMPUTER
June 14, 200420 yr whatever you do do *not* get fedora. just buy a prepackaged one like SuSe. that way if you have any problems you cna just call but you won't because they package it to make it plug and play.
June 14, 200420 yr Author i know about dual booting but I was told once you install linux, it fucks up part of ur HD or something. guess not
June 14, 200420 yr Just use REDHAT 9.0 Download from http://www.cnk.com.cn/download/software/OS/Linux/9.0/RedHat/RPMS/ burn onto CD rom...will take 3 CD's total. install it then up2date as root. j00 will be one wid duh leen00x.
June 14, 200420 yr Quote heklim'] (if u choose gentoo make sure u have a while to set up, rifk.) Yeah a nice while, and make you you know how to configure your lan and/or whatever the fuck you use to connect, just incase it doesnt auto-detect shit, it'll save headaches later on
June 15, 200420 yr its really easy. just download partition manager, make a BLANK partition (unformatted), boot up the installer for whatever distro, and it will recognize the blank partition. stuff is realyl straightfoward. if you are using debian or slack or somethin similiar you're gonna have to use cfdisk, but its well documented. i've installed and used lindows and its horrible. its not even bare bones. doesnt even include gcc. dont even bother, might as well use mandrake or something if ur nu.
