Linux Install Questions

[Hallzy]

Hey Guys, sorry 'bout all the Linux questions... I guess it should have it's own forum!!!

Anyway, I downloaded Red Hat 7.2 and I want to install it (Obviously) I am running XP Pro on my 40 G HD and I want to add my old 6 G HD for linux, that way no need to repartition or anything. My questions are:

Is it as easy as installing the 2nd HDD and proceed to load linux on that drive, Will it have a boot manager? or does it have to be on one HDD w/ multipartitions???

I downloaded Star office 5.2 and it is in a bin format, do I just open this file in linux and it installs????

Do I need software to open up the gz ext. If so what and where do I get it?

As you can't guess I am such a newbie with linux it's not even funny but I want to learn, I got a ton of sites but none can really answer these questions.

Any help would be great!


Thanks

 

[NiPeng]

<< Hey Guys, sorry 'bout all the Linux questions... I guess it should have it's own forum!!!

Anyway, I downloaded Red Hat 7.2 and I want to install it (Obviously) I am running XP Pro on my 40 G HD and I want to add my old 6 G HD for linux, that way no need to repartition or anything. My questions are:

Is it as easy as installing the 2nd HDD and proceed to load linux on that drive, Will it have a boot manager? or does it have to be on one HDD w/ multipartitions??? >>


Yes, but if you prefer the XP bootloader you could skip the installation of grub/lilo (linux bootloaders) and manually add linux to the XP bootloader after the RH installation.
How you do this I forgot. 😀



<< I downloaded Star office 5.2 and it is in a bin format, do I just open this file in linux and it installs???? >>


You would have to make the file executable and run it (probably) as root.

chmod +x blah.bin (make it executable)
./blah.bin (execute the file)




<< Do I need software to open up the gz ext. If so what and where do I get it? >>


This software will be installed by default. 😉

tar -xvvzf foo.tar.gz
extract gzipped foo.tar.gz

 

[Hallzy]

Bump for more info,

Okay, so If I have PM7 with bootmagic and have XP on C: and install Linux on the 2nd HDD it should work... or is it best to use LILO or the XP bootloader (if xp bootloader, how do I use it....?)


Thanks for the help
😱

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< Bump for more info,

Okay, so If I have PM7 with bootmagic and have XP on C: and install Linux on the 2nd HDD it should work... or is it best to use LILO or the XP bootloader (if xp bootloader, how do I use it....?)


Thanks for the help
😱 >>



Any of those would be fine. Do searches here for more information on lilo and xp's bootloader or look at the usual pages (linuxdoc.org etc) for more info.