Linux

[duc]

What is the best version of linux to use for general use?

[Kasracer]

gentoo

Mandrake and RedHat hide too much of the backgrounds of Linux and you'll learn next to nothing about linux installing those.

Besides, you can compile gentoo for your system and emerge is ****ing awesome!

[duc]

Originally posted by kasracer
gentoo

Mandrake and RedHat hide too much of the backgrounds of Linux and you'll learn next to nothing about linux installing those.

Besides, you can compile gentoo for your system and emerge is ****ing awesome!

Thanks. But I'm really confused about downloading and installing it. Where the heck are the instructions.

[Kasracer]

Originally posted by duc
Thanks. But I'm really confused about downloading and installing it. Where the heck are the instructions.

www.gentoo.org

I knew pretty much nothing about gentoo, and following the instructions, I was able to compile the entire OS, and the kernel by hand. The installation guide is very well done.

Download the live CD (it isn't very large) and you can do a network install, where it'll download the newest parts from the net.

[duc]

Doesn't liveCD only run off the cd? I mean isn't it more convienient to have it on the hd?

http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/experimental/ppc/livecd/

is that livecd?

[Kasracer]

Originally posted by duc
Doesn't liveCD only run off the cd? I mean isn't it more convienient to have it on the hd?

Uh.... when you download a LinuxISO, it IS on a CD.....

So yeah, the CD only runs off the CD.

All the ISOs of Gentoo have a knoppix type thing where you can boot off the CD and basically have a running linux environment immediately. You can install Gentoo after you boot off of the CD.

It isn't a wizard setup to where it installs everything for you like Mandrake or RedHat. You get to learn how to use the prompt

Despite what distro you go with, you have to boot off of their CD anyway. There is no installing from the harddrive. Well, actually, I'm sure their is a way to do so, but it would probably not even be worth the trouble.

Remember, you're installing an OS, it isn't just a program you can run off of the harddrive.

Originally posted by duc
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/experimental/ppc/livecd/

is that livecd?

Looks like it

[Cander]

Question, does this run off CD distro stuff save a spot on your hard drive for writing, or does it not allow it at all? I need to get a Linux distro on my system for some C++ app testing, but want something quick until I get some time to get my 2nd computer back up and running.

[VisionIT]

www.linuxiso.org

All you'll ever need!

[duc]

ok i burned it and tried starting bootup from cd and nothing happend.

[Kasracer]

Originally posted by duc
ok i burned it and tried starting bootup from cd and nothing happend.

Is BIOS setup to boot from CD?

Do you have a boot menu which allows you to chose CD?

Did you actually burn the image onto the CD or did you burn it as if it were just data?

[duc]

Originally posted by kasracer
Is BIOS setup to boot from CD?

Do you have a boot menu which allows you to chose CD?

Did you actually burn the image onto the CD or did you burn it as if it were just data?

The BIOS is set to CD as the primary drive to boot from.

Here is a picture of what I burned.

[Kasracer]

Originally posted by duc
The BIOS is set to CD as the primary drive to boot from.

Here is a picture of what I burned.

Don't burn it as data, burn it as an image.

Almost all burning programs will allow you to do that. Just throwing the ISO onto the CD won't do anything.

It's like burning a DVD, but instead of all of the video/audio information, you just burned a ZIP that contains everything. A DVD player won't know what to make of the ZIP.

[duc]

OK, before wasting a new cd. In Nero I went to File --> Burn Image, and got the menu below. Do I need to check off "Create Image"?




-duc

[Kasracer]

Originally posted by duc
OK, before wasting a new cd. In Nero I went to File --> Burn Image, and got the menu below. Do I need to check off "Create Image"?




-duc

No, why would you create another image?

[duc]

Heh, I crashed my computer because I partitioned it wrong.

[duc]

Ok, so anyways. When I start my computer it says "AUTOCHK program not found" and "WINNT2000 program not found" and last known good config. doesnt work.