Brandon Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 I have 2.5GB partition that i was gonna put windows 2000 on, in addition to my 60GB partition for XP Pro. which linux should i get? i downloaded ALT linux awhile ago, and it sucked on my Pentium 200Mhz, but now i have a 2500+ with 512MB and a radeon 9500 pro so.... should i put linux as my 2nd OS, or just use 2000 as my 2nd OS? and how would i set linux up as a 2nd OS that can read NTFS Partitions... and WHICH LINUX (thers like 7 billion different ones) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Posted November 30, 2003 Author Share Posted November 30, 2003 (edited) i could repartition my 80GB slave to make up to 10GB for the linux Edited November 30, 2003 by musicmaster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniacid Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 Well since your new why don't you try Mandrake, Red Hat or Fedora and learn, Mandrake installs NTFS support but you can install NTFS support easily Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casanova Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 knoppix is good and you wont mess anything up :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Posted November 30, 2003 Author Share Posted November 30, 2003 how will i not mess anything up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 how will i not mess anything up? Because you can run it off a CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casanova Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 it runs from a cd and doesnt use any hard drive space....use it to get comfortable with linux then move on to a major distribution. at least that mho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HEPB Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 You should try Fedora Core 1 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circaflex Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 red hat was very easy for me to use, complete linux n00b, so you might wanna try that out, i tried mandrake and it was nice too, start simple then build your way up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phanbot Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 I was a total n00b and I had played around with both Mandrake and Redhat, then I heard about Gentoo Linux 1.2, installation was a pain in the a$$, even though they have a really good installation manual on their website. But Oh Man! once I got it sucessfully installed and properly configured, I was in Computer nirvana. There's a steep learning curve to linux, all it takes is determination and RTFM, it helps to have lots of courteous and knowledgeable people who are willing to help out when problems are overwhelming you. Stay away from Debian, if you go to a Debian forum looking for help, other Debian users will just beat you over the head with "RTFM". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FBody24 Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 Stay away from Debian, if you go to a Debian forum looking for help, other Debian users will just beat you over the head with "RTFM". Not always a bad answer. See Here :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sin-ergy Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 Not always a bad answer.See Here :D :rofl: that's pretty funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bararum Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 maybe mandrake redhat to learn, but GENTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO is awesome, and really it's the hardcore way to learn linux. I did mandrake before i heard of gentoo, and it was a good route to go simply because i knew at least a little of linux, but it's not necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Posted November 30, 2003 Author Share Posted November 30, 2003 how much room do i need from redhat? (do i meed tp repartition) i wont be installing other appz besides the OS, and AIM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted November 30, 2003 Administrators Share Posted November 30, 2003 Please let me put a plug in for Mandrake. The reason I like it so much is that, if you use Partition Magic (or some other partitioning program) and partition or reformat a space for Linux (ext3), it will automatically install on that space and place a bootloader at the front end of the MBR. It is not too hard to learn and is probably closer to what you are used to. I recommend http://www.justlinux.com for info and it is a great forum. Also, I would stick with distribution 9.1 at this time. Although 9.2 is out, there are a few bugs that need to be worked out and 9.1 is really stable and secure. I have tried RedHat, but I clearly prefer Mandrake for ease of use and downloading updates. Go to http://www.linuxmandrake.com for downloading. Barney :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted November 30, 2003 Administrators Share Posted November 30, 2003 BTW, Here is a great link for all distro explanations: http://home.earthlink.net/~obitus2000/linu...ml#linux_newbie Barney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManXcalibur Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 Well I guess my favorite distro is Slackware. It's easy to use. But since your completly new to Linux I would say either use a live on CD version of Linux or try Mandrake. Mandrake is a great distro, perfect for sinking your teeth into Linux. But I'd give a live on CD version a quick try first. Here's a link to Slackware live on CD.... http://www.slackware-live.org/ Hope that helps you out a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmd3x Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 Debian, or if you're willing to pay, Xandros. I love the apt-get. Also, your hardware would run a yummy KDE gui quite nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantra Locust Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 Ark linux seems to be a good learning distro. Though it shares a lot of similarities with Windows XP ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonelypilgrim Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 are you saying gentoo is an easy linux to learn on? or is mandrake easier? I think I misunderstood something... :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casanova Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 http://www.knoppix.net/ go here and downlaod an image burn it to a cd follow the directions on the site :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonelypilgrim Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 (edited) thanks, i already got knoppix - std, but I want to get a permanent install of linux eventually, but is gentoo easy to install and learn for a n00b? or should I stick with mandrake? Edited December 14, 2003 by lonelypilgrim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR_Candyman Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 gentoo is probably the hardest distro to install...personally I find Slackware to the THE EASIEST...but that's just me I gather since everybody keeps saying how hard it is.... and you can do a permanant install of knoppix..... For a newb distro I'd go for Jamd though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F4t4l1ty Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 Want a secure stable os to use thats fairly easy to install... use FreeBSD 4.8 Stable. Ports are easy to use, pkg_add, pkg_delete and pkg_version are easier than rpms to use :) Once you get it running, XFree86 being the hardest thing to configure ( and thats ONLY if you don't know your own hardware) You will prolly never even wanna try Gentoo, although for those hardcore linux people Gentoo is great. Also it takes LESS time to get *BSD boxes running than most other OS's.. even windows. :yes: BTW Im using FreeBSD 5.1 Current and Gnome 2.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 gentoo is probably the hardest distro to install...personally I find Slackware to the THE EASIEST...but that's just me I gather since everybody keeps saying how hard it is.... Slackware is easy to install, most people who are used to auto partitioning might get confused with fdisk and naming the partitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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