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Help newb start using linux!

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iman00b

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I know absolutely nothing about linux but i want to learn. Which distro of linux is good to use? I want to learn how to use linux and not a imitation windows. Something thats not extremely complicated yet something worth using/learning about. Any guides or something to start me would be very helpful. Remember i know NOTHING as of yet. =)
(i would use the search for other posts but i dont even know what to search =X)
 
Mandrake, Fedora, or SuSE are good starting spots. Just download the .isos (mdk or fedora), burn, boot and click yes and next until it works.
 
also, one feature that might help you a lot is the "search" in the forums. I'm not being rude or anything, 😉 I'm just telling you because linux welcomes people, but the community does expect you to read, and try to learn things so you can post more educated questions 🙂
 
Just a fare warnning kernel 2.6 doesn't play nice with NTFS partition. So if you are planning on dual booting, becarefull and back up your data.
 
Originally posted by: UmneyDurak
Just a fare warnning kernel 2.6 doesn't play nice with NTFS partition. So if you are planning on dual booting, becarefull and back up your data.
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That's a odd comment. It's not any worse then 2.4. NTFS support for read only is perfectly safe, however writing is questionable.

Maybe your refering to the Fedora bug with Grub not working properly? That unfortunate happenned when you resize a NTFS partition with partition magic and then replace the bootloader with the default setup that gets used by Fedora's installer. A unfortunate combination of different sorta-standard standards.

But definately backup stuff, resizing partitions is never safe (much better to plan everything out before you start partitioning. But resizing usually works, and is usually safe). Also rescue disks are handy to have around.
 
hey,
i started out the same way enthusiastic about learning linux, not knowing anything at all. It is definetly a very useful tool to learn and to have, but you'll have to work VERY hard to learn how to do everything. Just keep that in mind. A good tool that I used was: www.google.com/linux

Also to get the rpm's that you may not have you can search on the mandrake or redhat sites if you can't find them on google.com/linux. very good luck to you and don't give up.

-nabiscc
 
Originally posted by: drag
Originally posted by: UmneyDurak
Just a fare warnning kernel 2.6 doesn't play nice with NTFS partition. So if you are planning on dual booting, becarefull and back up your data.
Click to expand...

That's a odd comment. It's not any worse then 2.4. NTFS support for read only is perfectly safe, however writing is questionable.

Maybe your refering to the Fedora bug with Grub not working properly? That unfortunate happenned when you resize a NTFS partition with partition magic and then replace the bootloader with the default setup that gets used by Fedora's installer. A unfortunate combination of different sorta-standard standards.

But definately backup stuff, resizing partitions is never safe (much better to plan everything out before you start partitioning. But resizing usually works, and is usually safe). Also rescue disks are handy to have around.
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I'm reffering to it messing up the CHS during install.
Here is the article that talks about it.
http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/

I was getting really wiered problems when installing FC2. Like the last Windows partition, becomming unformated after I install FC2, and after I format it FC2 stop booting. Finally I put Windows on one HD, FC2 on second HD, grub on /boot partition on second HD, and editing boot.ini to boot to grub. So far no problems.
 
Well it seems to be atleast partly kernel related because 2.6 kernels may return a different geometry than what the BIOS decided was right. The problem is there's no standard set of rules for determining geometry and the numbers differ if you tell your BIOS to enable LBA or not. IMO it's a libparted/parted bug because it should determine the geometry by what's currently in the partition table, not by asking the kernel what it thinks since the kernel doesn't really care at all.
 
i'm building a linux box from a bunch of older computer parts. I got bored, what can i say. No. I heardt a rumor that a new version of red hat is coming out soon. Is that true? Is this the right place to post this question?
 
Man, I can't wait to get a new system. My old 1 gig is just BEGGING to have Linux installed. I can't wait to play around. All I need is a new hard drive. (The current two are dying.)

I can't wait!

(Probably going to go with Red Hat, I think.)






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