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I'm building myself another small box which I can use to play around with Linux while I do my normal everyday stuff for Uni and games on my main machine.
What version of Linux should I bother trying first to begin with, also where could I get it from without too much hefty downloading (ie blowing my 3gb wad straight off)
Quote from Jay:
What version of Linux should I bother trying first to begin with, also where could I get it from without too much hefty downloading (ie blowing my 3gb wad straight off)
you answered your question right there. get the version thats easiest for you to get ;) (except maybe slackware, if you're totally new to it).
Joy I'm downloading RedHat 7.3 from the Tucows, Netspace mirror. Which I hope is free downloads (lets see what helpdesk says). Lovely 2gb downloads.
dosnt RedHat 7.3 have a GUI desktop?
i wouldnt mind a copy of that just so i can play around with it when i get boarded of waiting for a download or somefin :)
do u people this having a dual boot of linux and xp would work?
Hmm since there's no-one I can go and download any linux iso with my download cap without blowing it.
Is there any chance anyone kind enough would be able to send me the CDs for RedHat 7.3 . I'd be willing to pay a small contribution for cost of CDs, postage and labour of it. As long as it's reasonable otherwise I'm off to the shops to buy the Official supported version.
linux has *alays* had a gui desktop. its just improved a bit recently.
dual boot xp and linux works fine.
cool nice to hear that it will work
how much Hdd space should i need for the Linux OS ?
i am just wanting to learn it and try do shit when i am board?
will 7 gig be enough?
seven gig will be loads of space.
that'll give you an absolute maximum installation with all the optional extras installed and space to play around
cool thanks for the help there paladin
o one more question
with the dual boot will i need the partition to be a Fat32 or that Ntsomething or other?
i can rember em
but if u know what i am talking bout do u know which one it will need to be to run linux red hat
linux installs on its own filesystem type. windows won't be able to see the partition you have devoted to linux. linux will be able to see your windows partition, and have normal access to it if its fat32, read only access if its ntfs. (actually, it may be read/write to ntfs, haven't tried in a while, but don't count on it)
You would need a FAT32 partition for anything to store anything you wish to be able to read and write to under Linux.
Linux can read NTFS, however write support for it is incomplete (it can be enabled during a kernel recompile but it is labeled as dangerous - could corrupt the partition).
Linux will also need an ext2 (2nd Extended) filesystem to boot from.
Quote from Eaglehawk:
You would need a FAT32 partition for anything to store anything you wish to be able to read and write to under Linux.
thats semi-misleading. if you want to share data between windows and linux, it must be done on a fat32 partition. if you just want linux to have access to it, you're better off using a native linux partition.
Quote from Eaglehawk:
Linux will also need an ext2 (2nd Extended) filesystem to boot from.
not so. the machine i'm typing this on is quite capable of booting, and its filesystems are all ext3.
Oh, btw.
Jay, I've got Mandrake 8.1 here in the form of 3 .iso images. Bring round 3 cds and I can burn it for you.
Quote from paladin:
thats semi-misleading. if you want to share data between windows and linux, it must be done on a fat32 partition. if you just want linux to have access to it, you're better off using a native linux partition.
Whoops, thats what I meant
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not so. the machine i'm typing this on is quite capable of booting, and its filesystems are all ext3.
It's easy to get a machine to boot off an ext2 partition, but Linux can boot off of any partition it's kernel has support compiled in for (could probably boot it of VFAT if you tried, but VFAT is primitive).
I should go get my morning coffee shouldn't I?
Nah doesn't matter now, I picked up a copy of latest version of RH, along with the source code disks and more.