Installing Linux on a Windows PC

Bhishma

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Dec 22, 2005, 11:31:12 PM12/22/05

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Hi... I have to install Linux on my machine which is running on
winXP... i have 2 partitions in it.... how do i go about the
installation process?

Bit Twister

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Dec 22, 2005, 11:49:42 PM12/22/05

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Welcome to Linux.

Guess it will depend on which linux out of the 200+ distributions you
picked for install.

If Mandriva linux
http://doc.mandrivalinux.com/MandrakeLinux/101/en/Starter.html/

---- Standard newbie text follows: -------------------------------

Before you start posting questions about linux, please read
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You might want to look at
http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_toc.html
http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/
http://linuxcommand.org

You can bring up a console window and
do a man man
and man info
to see how to get help.
Do a man bash
to see what you can do with the shell.
Next cat /etc/profile
cat ~/.bash_profile
to see what sets up your envrionment.

Jimchip posted *A compilation from a recent thread*

http://rute.sourceforge.net/ is currently very good.

Visit the Unix Gurus at:
http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?ugu

Others in no particular order:
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html
http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/rute.html.gz Rute User's Tutorial & Exposition
http://www.shelldorado.com
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ is a little out of date
http://www.dsl.org/cookbook
http://linux.org.mt/article/terminal
http://www.tldp.org
http://www.mandrakeuser.org
http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/index.shtml

Then there's always a very large faq search engine:
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search

You might want to try this
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
and put
oG6Ja.3191$425.1...@newsfep2-gui.server.ntli.net
in the Message ID box

Bhishma

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Dec 23, 2005, 12:15:26 AM12/23/05

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thanx very much twister!!!

Jafar As-Sadiq Calley

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Dec 23, 2005, 5:38:38 AM12/23/05

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It's simple. Just download and burn your chosen Linux distribution onto a
CD/DVD and boot from this disc. Then you just follow the on screen
instructions.
Enjoy!

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Jafar Calley
http://partners4success.ath.cx
http://fastergeek.blogdns.com

Ragnar

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Dec 23, 2005, 7:07:00 AM12/23/05

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Download, burn to CD and install this distro you will have no problems
with XP and partitions anymore ;)

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/undead/EvilEntity-DR-0.2.5.iso?download

ray

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Dec 23, 2005, 10:56:12 AM12/23/05

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On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:31:12 -0800, Bhishma wrote:

Check the bios to boot from CD.
Insert the first CD of the set (if there is more than one) and follow the
guides.

Nog

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Dec 23, 2005, 12:23:07 PM12/23/05

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Bhishma wrote:

You could remove the second partition and use the unallocated space for
Linux install. I myself had to shrink my single 200gig partition and use
the unallocated space for my SuSE 10.0 install. Well worth it. I now seldom
use XP at all. SuSE does everything I need.

noi

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Dec 23, 2005, 1:13:32 PM12/23/05

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On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:31:12 -0800, Bhishma wrote this:

> Hi... I have to install Linux on my machine which is running on winXP... i
> have 2 partitions in it.... how do i go about the installation process?

You could try one of the Live CD distributions just in case.