DigitalFreedom Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 hey, i wanna try lunix, :D, and i have a win xp install i do not want to lose, since i read many problems woth multi boot, what is a lunix os, thats good for a newbie like me, and also will work right off the bat as soon as i install it without messing up my xp install, and i still want win xp default start up, as i on;y want to try, and mess around with it, aslo, mandrake's site did not give me dl links, when i press download, i will regester later, it brings be back to the same page. :unsure: :no: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divinatum Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 redhat?? if you look on thescreensavers.com Chris DiBona has written an article on how to dual boot XP and RH Linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farchord Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 Lunix? Don't know it... is it a new one? I know a lil bout Linux... but can't help you with that ;) :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keldyn Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 moved to linux forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromvar Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 You could try Knoppix if you don't want to mess with your xp installation @ http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html The ScreenSavers seem to suggest it if you just want to mess with linux without actually switching to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalFreedom Posted February 1, 2003 Author Share Posted February 1, 2003 ok, as for dual booting, i read the artical, and i understand all of it except this The last bit of magic is to make the Linux root partition active and making sure the Windows partition is not active. If you forget this step you will either jump directly into Windows, or you will get an OS not found error as your computer's BIOS will be unable to decide which partition is the active one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalFreedom Posted February 1, 2003 Author Share Posted February 1, 2003 You could try Knoppix if you don't want to mess with your xp installation @ http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.htmlThe ScreenSavers seem to suggest it if you just want to mess with linux without actually switching to it. thx :D, i may use this :D, but i want to see what other peeps say, as i do wan tto customize some stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tran Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 A good Linux for a newb like you and me is RedHat 8.0. And don't worry about dual booting, I have both XP and RH partition on the same drive and everything works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 Installing linux dual boot is really quite simple -resize your primary hard disk and create 3 new partitions (boot <100 MB, root all you want, swap about size of ram) -stick your distro's cd in and in under 30 minutes you'll have linux up with all kinds of apps, but you will need to fix a few potential issues. Usually grub or lilo is installed and presents you with an option to whether to boot windows or linux (specific to kernel). You can always edit the default time, default OS. If you wanna wipe it, loads windows cd and boot to dos. type fdisk /mbr and the windows bootloader is back in charge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniacid Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 yea DF its that easy :), I say you use RH also, either that or mandrake, just make sure you have 2 free partitions you can use Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 Lunix? Don't know it... is it a new one?I know a lil bout Linux... but can't help you with that ;) :whistle: Lunix actually exists :o :wacko: http://lng.sourceforge.net/ It's for the commodore 64 of all computers. That is quite simply amazing!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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