Linux and Multi-booter

[haggy3]

Hi im trying to find a good version of linux i will be able to use for free. Also, i wanted to see if anyone could point me in the right direction of a multibooter thing (have linux and windows) all help is appreciated.


-Haggy

[Ping_pong]

Eerm, why you posted this in AA section? :o Technical Jargon would fit fine for this thread..

[TerrorCop]

Beter post it in Technical Jargon like Ping_Pong said :)

[.Fu$ioN^-]

Redhat Linux , is the best , im using it , but its lil complicated =)

[Nerds AgainstPB]

just install red hat linux it will auto multiboot for you.

just dont do rm -rf /

[Filb]

would any1 do this?
well don't know....
i am using fedora which is based on red hat, too
I think all linux distros have got a boot loader in them
(not very sure of Gentoo)

[scruie]

Slightly off-topic but it will be helpful.

Seems there is some increased interest in linux. I've never used it so can't offer much assistance. However would it be usful to create a separate sub-forum for it. If interest is there?

[haggy3]

Well tghankz for all the help, but i have been searching around for redhat, etc.. and can't find anything i don't have to pay for :S...so if anyone has any links or such i would be very grateful if they were posted :D



-Haggy

[scruie]

Give this sticky a go: http://www.mpcforum.com/showthread.php?t=120878

[haggy3]

Thankz alot scruie :D, and everyone else...I think i've got it now



-Haggy

Ok, I download ubuntu (think it's the name) and I opened it with winrar. From there I have no clue what to do. There is just alot of files and i see none i can run to install it?...Help Please :)


-Haggy

[luck777jojo]

you probably downloaded the .iso file (those open up in winrar) just burn that file instead (as an image) or put all the files in that folder on a cd and burn them, then pop in the cd and it will start installing, you might need to make it so your cd boots up before your HD so it will start installing.

Make sure you have some free HD space that you can afford to partition for linux.

Personally I would recomend (rather than installing linux straight away) you download a bootable version of linux such as knoppix http://www.knoppix.org/ burn that on to a cd or dvd (depending on which version you download) pop it into your cd drive and boot from it, it will give you a chance to try out linux before actually installing it on your HD.

Knoppix doesn't install anything it runs directly from the CD and is a good was to recover a dead windows computer as well, so it's good to have. It has a bunch of stuff included in the distro as well so even though it's a bootable cd/dvd it's still very functional.

If you must install then I would suggest SuSe, Mandriva, or Ubuntu those are very nice distros (SuSe being my favorite) http://distrowatch.com/