Which Linux for this PC?

[Crism]

I'm in a computer class in school and I want to deck out this PC with as much crap as I can get on it. It started out as an unused 333MHz P2 64MB RAM Matrox Video 6.4GB hard drive. So the class basically gets one computer per 1 or 2 people and we rip it apart and put it back together. So there were about 30 of these things sitting around so we got these. Power hungry me started taking 3 of them and putting them into one...I've currently rigged it out with 333Mhz P2, 3 sticks of 64mb ram, Matrox video, NIC card, ISA Sound card, 2 6.4GB hard drives, a 52x CDROM, and I'm putting in a DVD drive and maybe another HD on a Promise controller tomorrow.

I'm thinking of triple booting Win2000, NT, and some Linux on there...

What linux version should I use? I'm a beginner at it and I don't want a distro with like 3 or 5 CD's lol...

 

[n0cmonkey]

Slackware.

 

[OffTopic1]

If the purpose of the class is to study OSes, then Windows, Slack/Debian, & BSD are good OSes to learn.
SuSE (single DVD), Mandrake, Mephis (single CD), and Fedora, are decent distros to work with if you need to get something up quickly and get going on working.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: OffTopic
If the purpose of the class is to study OSes, then Windows, Slack/Debian, & BSD are good OSes to learn.
SuSE (single DVD), Mandrake, Mephis (single CD), and Fedora, are decent distros to work with if you need to get something up quickly and get going on working.

I do agree. While I have never used any BSD's with slackware you should learn quite a bit if that is what you are looking for.

 

[Crism]

I've got Slax downloading now . I'm going ot make 1 hard drive primary for Windows 2k then have the other O/S's on different partitions on the other hard drive....should work

 

[Randabis]

Isn't that a liveCD distro? I'm sure you could install it to the hard drive, but why not go with pure slack, or even better debian or a debian-based distro?

BSD would be good too.

 

[Nothinman]

Debian.

 

[MournSanity]

Beatrix.

 

[Crism]

I tried Slackware this morning and I couldn't get it to install. I'll try Red Hat, Mandrake, or Fedora 3 tomorrow...

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Crism
I tried Slackware this morning and I couldn't get it to install. I'll try Red Hat, Mandrake, or Fedora 3 tomorrow...

Why not?

 

[Crism]

Me and my Linux-intelligent friend could not find out how to format the hard drive or install it...so right now I'm downloading Fedora 3 as they use that at school so he should know what to do.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Crism
Me and my Linux-intelligent friend could not find out how to format the hard drive or install it...so right now I'm downloading Fedora 3 as they use that at school so he should know what to do.

Can either of you read?

 

[bersl2]

How can one be "Linux-intelligent" and not know how to format a hard drive?

mkfs -t fstype /dev/name_of_partition

It's not really that difficult.