Linux For Beginners- Easy To Install

Whats so great about Linux and whats it used for and where do you get it from and what are you able to do with it great full for any answers what so ever this maybe a stupid question lol thank you so so so so so much i truely am great full Cheers Jay

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why you dont try fedora..it comes with user friendly installation process..and it also has various softwares auto distributed with the installation..it can be used as a web server..i find it rocking..
u can either use a guided partiton or you can try manually..by
creating disk partition according to the below table--

1. create a atleast 100mb ext3 partition and mount it as /boot
2. create a atleast 4gb ext3 partition for installation files..mount point /root or /
3. create a partition just double in size to your ram..as swap memory.
4. its your wish to create a ext3 type partition for /home...to use it for ur storage..recommended 1gb or more..

the all process is user friendly..and is quiet easily done.

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Fedora works well, but it can be complicated when it comes to setting up Samba and power options. I still rather people go to OpenSUSE as it is one of the most powerful yet easy distribution to use for all.

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Hello canalilha,

Please help me with the installation of FEDORA on my PC. I already have WINDOWS XP on my machine But I want to use LINUX as my OS.
Do I have to remove XP from my PC completely to install FEDORA ?
I have both CD as well as DVD which should I use now as I am newbie.
May I use Windows and fedora as my OSs ?

Your response would be appreciated. Thank you

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@one_nikhil, you can install Linux on a separate partition. This allows both operating systems to coexist together. Fedora comes with a partitioner with their Anaconda installer.

Refer to here: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guid...rtitioning.html and here: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guid...ng-general.html

xboxrulz

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I am one more who finds OpenSuSE my preferred system. It has a very solid installer, with options to allow a very high degree of customization. There are two downsides, however. One is that it is so complex that it is difficult for newcomers. The other is that a recent version of it requires relatively powerful hardware: lots of RAM and a powerful CPU to support all its graphics.

I just spent a few days trying to get Linux running on an old (born around 1995) computer with 64 MB RAM. After trying half a dozen flavors of Linux, I found that only Damn Small Linux (DSL) was capable of booting from a CD on it. The problem was that all the other distros I tried had long ago migrated from the Syslinux boot handler to the Isolinux boot handler. I have now learned that Syslinux is better at dealing with really old hardware.

I strongly recommend using a "Live CD" of any distro you are considering, and specifically one that is tailored for your CPU. I have a new computer with an AMD64 (Athlon64) CPU. I have recently been testing the Debian distribution. That is the "grandfather" of Ubuntu, Knoppix, Xandros and the variant of Xandros that lives inside Asus Eee PC netbooks. Debian has a very large number of installable support packages, but I learned the hard way that those packages may be difficult or impossible to install on one of the "children," such as Ubuntu or an Eee PC. I'm still not sure exactly what the problem is, but I have chased down a lot of bunny trails finding out what doesn't work!

The advantage of the Live CD approach is that you can test lots of things without having anything changed on your computer. This is a major advantage, in contrast to installing a package you are curious about on a Windows machine, then trying to remove it, without leaving undesired dlls, etc, on the machine after the uninstall.

 

 

 

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How about Fedora? Is it a good Linux distro?

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Fedora installation getting stuck in initrd.img
Linux For Beginners- Easy To Install

I have a 80GB hard disk with WinXP already installed.I had tried installing Fedora 10 earlier without creating new partitions(real foolish and ignorant of me   ) and tried creating partitions using Fedora10 bootable.It didnt work.Then I created a free partition and again tried installing Fedora10 using same procedure of creating 'Custom layout'.This time it again didnt work and in addition also corrupted Windows.I reinstalled Windows XP and used Partition magic to create a free partition of 20 GB in ext3 format.Now when I try to boot Fedora 10 the screen says 'Loading initrd.Img and the PC restarts.This keeps on going. I tried with Fedora 12 bootable but now my PC says "LOADING initrd.Img' and then says 'not enough memory' and nothing goes forward.

My windows working fine.My hard disk (80GB,two 20 GB parttions in NTFS,one 20GB partition in FAT32 and one 20GB partition in EXT3 format).RAM 512MB

Help  as I want dual boot in my system ...

-question by Ganesh Kuppan

 

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