[huskerlug] Re: Linux without destroying Windows
- From: James Worrest <jworrest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:01:07 -0600 (CST)
Slackware is probably the first to use a DOS partition to run Linux
look around for their site, or if you're well-heeled you can get their
distribution
from Barnes & Noble. www.cheapbytes.com can really have some good deals on
CD-ROMs
too. They are an excellent company to do business with. J.R. should have a
copy of
Slackware 7.1 (don't use 7.0) and it will run on DOS partition. Note, if
you're going
to install a lot of stuff use the 4kbyte disk segmentation of some of the
Windows 95 and
probably all of the Windows 98 programs, because all those tiny files will
overflow a 2 gig partition with 32k sector sizes! There is also ZIPSLACK on
that Slackware distro. which will take up a whole lot less space, but
doesn't have any GUI's installed. ---Jim
At 08:27 PM 3/9/2001 -0600, you wrote:
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>Now, on to the problem. If you didn't want to risk repartitioning, you can=
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>try a Linux install that goes off the Windows partition. It doesn't effect=
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>your existing files at all. There are several distributions that do this,=
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>but they aren't the big names you've probably heard about such as Redhat=
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>SuSE. There are two distributions that work well that I've seen. WinLinux=
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>2000 at www.winlinux2000.com has an installer that works like most Windows=
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>programs. It's about a 200 meg download, so you may want to find someone=
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>with a good connection to get it for you if you don't have one. Or, the=20
>members and I at HLUG can probably get you a copy on CD for you. Another=
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>version is Phat Linux at www.phatlinux.com. This is about 243 megs and=20
>installs about the same as WinLinux 2000.
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>There are probably others out there, those two are just the ones I've=
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>to work off a Windows partition.
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>On a side note, if you have a Pentium or above, Mandrake has a tool builtin=
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>Also, if you have NTFS, be VERY VERY careful. It will be destr=EFyed if=
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>recommended). That means you can't install the above two distros on NTFS=
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>On Friday 09 March 2001 16:14, zouhui1@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> > Hi.how's going?
>> I want to install Linux on my machine. But I don't know which version of
>> Linux is better. My current OS is win98. I don't want to destory it and=
the
>> data on my disk. How could do it? I saw some articles the said to install
>> Linux into your machine may cause some old data to be destoried. How=
could
>> I keep everything safe when installing Linux. and how to establish a
>> selection when rebooting computer that let me select beteween Linux and
>> win98?
>>
>> Could you give some help?
>> Thank you
>> Hui Zou
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