Re: XP Home
- From: NoStop <nostop@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 22:34:37 GMT
bumtracks wrote:
> Where is the free version of linux that self installs itself and self
> configures dual boot that can be added to an existing windows XP pc ?
>
You can pickup Mandrake 10.1 here ...
http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=29
You'll want to get all 3 CD's: CD1 to CD3. After downloading them you should
do a MD5SUM to make sure the ISO files came across the Net without any
problems. You can google for a MD5SUM for Windoze. With the Windoze version
you'll (at a command prompt I believe) run the program with the ISO
filename and it'll produce a long number. That number needs to be the same
as the MD5SUM number displayed next to the download file on the site.
Once you have created the 3 CDs from the ISO files you've downloaded, you're
ready to go and install Mandrake 10.1. It is probably the easiest Linux
distro to install for a newbie and will see your existing Windoze partition
and allow you to decrease the size of that partition leaving free unused
space on the end of your hard drive to install Linux. You should make sure
your existing partition is in order FIRST. So run chkdsk on it and defrag
it before going to install Mandrake.
When you install Mandrake you can choose to have it use LILO as the boot
manager. This will then allow you to dualboot into XP or Mandrake 10.1.
Of course that site offers a number of other distros if you want to use
something else. Personally, I'm very impressed with Mandrake 10.1 and
highly recommend it for someone first coming into the Linux world from
Windoze.
If it's SuSE you want, it's on the site here ...
http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=2
The 9.1 Personal version comes on just one CD or you can download the 9.1
live-eval CD that will let you boot from the CD and play with Linux without
touching your Windoze hard drive. Or, as you'll see you can do an FTP
install of SuSE from there, so you don't even need to download a whole ISO.
Good luck and have fun!
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