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Which Linux for me ?

  • 19-03-2007 1:41pm
    #1
    delanest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 216 ✭✭


    I'm running Windows XP and I want to set this up a dual boot machine.

    I have no Linux experience but I have a lot of Solaris experience so I'm guessing the transition should be grand. i want it partly to learn, maybe to a bit of coding and other stuff messing around. Ubuntu seems to be the flavor of the month here. Is it all command line or is it a kind of linux representation of MS ?

    Any taught welcome :cool:


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  • #2
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    ubuntu is very user friendly. nice GUI, with quick access to command line. great online forum support too on their site, great to start out on


  • #3
    So Glad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭So Glad


    melekalikimaka wrote:
    ubuntu is very user friendly. nice GUI, with quick access to command line. great online forum support too on their site, great to start out on

    Yes, I've tried Debian "DreamLinux" but I've reinstalled Ubuntu. It's the best and most user friendly.


  • #4
    mneylon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,740 ✭✭✭mneylon


    Download the Ubuntu CD and try the live version. It won't "hurt" your PC and will give you some idea of what you can do with it

    Blog | Tweets



  • #5
    delanest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 216 ✭✭delanest


    cool, just watched this which confirmed it for me


    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2369893842637434537


    its a instalation guide/video, looks very handy, it even partitions the disks :D

    I think I won't bother though, I will run it from a second disk.

    Actually love to do this now but I don't have a DVD here, I wonder can I just boot directly from the second hard drive? same thing ?:confused:


  • #6
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    be careful, grub can be tricky if not done right first time.


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  • #7
    delanest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 216 ✭✭delanest


    is that a general statement or just if your booting it from Disk ?


    It's no biggy really, of course I can just pop out and pick up a disk


  • #8
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    booting from cd is grand
    live cd is easy
    just when you install it onto the hd, it can SOMETIMES be a bit messy, but if ya follow the tutorials everywhere no problems should arise


  • #9
    delanest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 216 ✭✭delanest


    Ok cheers


  • #10
    Mike...
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 956 ✭✭✭Mike...


    Ubuntu is easy to work....best of luck with it


  • #11
    So Glad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭So Glad


    *mono* wrote:
    Ubuntu is easy to work....best of luck with it

    I wouldn't say that. When I (EVENTUALLY) got Ubuntu installed I had a solid week of trying to fix errors and bugs. Probably my story but, that's what happened. I just reinstalled it and now it's working grand.


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  • #12
    delanest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 216 ✭✭delanest


    Ok, just an update on this. I downloaded and installed Ubuntu. I kept getting an error that there is "no root partition" set, so I had to investigate.

    According to the documentation there is a known (and quite problematic) bug in Ubuntu that often requires a perfectly fine partition to be deleted and then re-created before it will be recognized for the installation. I did this and it worked fine, no problem.

    I hav'nt really got a chance to play around with it too much, got side tracked with other work, but I'm sure I'll post my comments later ..


    I've now have another question, when I dual boot I guess the option screen is coming from the BIOS to choose which OS to boot into. It gives 10 seconds to choose which OS before it automatically boots into the first OS on the list, how do I go about changing this ?


  • #13
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    when I dual boot I guess the option screen is coming from the BIOS to choose which OS to boot into. It gives 10 seconds to choose which OS before it automatically boots into the first OS on the list, how do I go about changing this ?
    Edit /etc/grub.conf and change

    timeout 10

    to whatever value you like. The time is measured in seconds.


  • #14
    delanest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 216 ✭✭delanest


    cool that was easy ...:D

    new to Dual booting had to look up what GRUB was.

    Nice read here (short) if you don't know:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB


    cheers Aidan


  • #15
    delanest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 216 ✭✭delanest


    cool that was easy ...:D

    new to Dual booting had to look up what GRUB was.

    Nice read here (short) if you don't know:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB


    cheers Aidan


  • #16
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    delanest wrote:
    Ok, just an update on this. I downloaded and installed Ubuntu. I kept getting an error that there is "no root partition" set, so I had to investigate.

    According to the documentation there is a known (and quite problematic) bug in Ubuntu that often requires a perfectly fine partition to be deleted and then re-created before it will be recognized for the installation. I did this and it worked fine, no problem.

    I hav'nt really got a chance to play around with it too much, got side tracked with other work, but I'm sure I'll post my comments later ..


    I've now have another question, when I dual boot I guess the option screen is coming from the BIOS to choose which OS to boot into. It gives 10 seconds to choose which OS before it automatically boots into the first OS on the list, how do I go about changing this ?
    I had the same problem recently. Was trying to install Xubuntu 6.10 over Ubuntu 6.6 and got that error. I will try wiping the current root partition so.

    You can edit the grub file to change the default OS. I'm running openSUSE and there's a graphical frontend for doing this. This just edits /boot/grub/menu.lst. You'll need to be root/the su to view or edit this file.


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