RE: [newbie] HOW TO START LINUX
Ok, this might be too basic for you, but just in case, I thought I should send you some links: [myloginname@host ]$ This is the command line prompt. It is from here that you run Linux commands (similar to, but MUCH more powerful than DOS). However you probably want to run linux in graphical mode (thereby being more similar to windows or other graphical based operating systems, again, only more powerful). Try doing a full install of Linux on its own partition, things should work better and it's a great way to experience Linux for the first time. You might find it is easier than you think. But there is always SO much to learn. :) Check out http://www.mandrakecampus.com and http://www.mandrakeuser.org to learn more about the command line and commands you can run with it. -Paul R -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kuljit Singh Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 12:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] HOW TO START LINUX Hi, I have installed the LIN4WIN and everything went well until it asked me for my login name and password which was fine and then it asked for this [myloginname@host ]$ or something like that and I dont know what to press/type. I tried startx and my screen went blank and presses ctrl + alt + backspace and the screen came back on but to the same problem.. Please help me - Original Message - From: "Dale Kosan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 6:56 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] boot.ini Well, not as easy as one would think. I have NT and Linux at work on same the machine, along with 98 and 2000.Maybe someone else knows away.I could post the procedure givin to me if you like. The one thing is you should be running lilo.Let me know if you would like the info and I will post from work today... _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] HOW TO START LINUX
I'm a 60 year old, 20 year computer user with 10 on windows. I tried lnx4win and it ran SO slow i done a full install of Mandrake 7.2 behind win98. I'm a complete newbie and had no problems once i got my drive partitioned. The basics of 7.2 are as easy as windows. Harry Fulkerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Kuljit Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] HOW TO START LINUX Well since I know next to nothing about Linux, I thought this was the best thing to start with. - Original Message - From: "Mr S Ganesan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] HOW TO START LINUX why do u load LINUX4WIN in the first place? Go for a standard Linux Distrubution such as Redhat or Mandrake and get the LILO do everything for you. I also have a machine which has win98,NT and LRH6.2 working without a hitch!!! -- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-732105 (R) Fax: 0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in
Re: [newbie] HOW TO START LINUX
You can call me crazy. What I do is install Linux-Mandrake, RedHat, TurboLinux each on a separate harddisk in a removable tray. This is purely for learning. I use Win95 at home, Win 95 + 98 at work. If any of the Linux got mess-up my working OS is intact. Just IMHO. Regards At 23-02-2001 +0800, you wrote: Well since I know next to nothing about Linux, I thought this was the best thing to start with. - Original Message - From: "Mr S Ganesan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] HOW TO START LINUX why do u load LINUX4WIN in the first place? Go for a standard Linux Distrubution such as Redhat or Mandrake and get the LILO do everything for you. I also have a machine which has win98,NT and LRH6.2 working without a hitch!!! -- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-732105 (R) Fax: 0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in
Re: [newbie] HOW TO START LINUX
I am using lin4win how slow is it i have to wait a long just desktop From: "Harold Fulkerson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HOW TO START LINUX Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 06:20:36 -0800 I'm a 60 year old, 20 year computer user with 10 on windows. I tried lnx4win and it ran SO slow i done a full install of Mandrake 7.2 behind win98. I'm a complete newbie and had no problems once i got my drive partitioned. The basics of 7.2 are as easy as windows. Harry Fulkerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Kuljit Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] HOW TO START LINUX Well since I know next to nothing about Linux, I thought this was the best thing to start with. - Original Message - From: "Mr S Ganesan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] HOW TO START LINUX why do u load LINUX4WIN in the first place? Go for a standard Linux Distrubution such as Redhat or Mandrake and get the LILO do everything for you. I also have a machine which has win98,NT and LRH6.2 working without a hitch!!! -- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-732105 (R) Fax: 0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: [newbie] HOW TO START LINUX
You can expect Win4Lin to be very slow compared to Linux on a dedicated partition. This is because Linux is stored on a virtual partition, in reality one large file on a Windos partition. Windoze filesystems are naturally slow, so this compounds the problem. You can think of the virtual partition as being similar to one *huge* zip file, that is, a file that contains many other files. You will lose many benefits of using Linux (like increased speed and crash protection) by using Win4Lin. On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 10:16, Robert Pena wrote: I am using lin4win how slow is it i have to wait a long just desktop From: "Harold Fulkerson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HOW TO START LINUX Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 06:20:36 -0800 I'm a 60 year old, 20 year computer user with 10 on windows. I tried lnx4win and it ran SO slow i done a full install of Mandrake 7.2 behind win98. I'm a complete newbie and had no problems once i got my drive partitioned. The basics of 7.2 are as easy as windows. Harry Fulkerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Kuljit Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] HOW TO START LINUX Well since I know next to nothing about Linux, I thought this was the best thing to start with. - Original Message - From: "Mr S Ganesan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] HOW TO START LINUX why do u load LINUX4WIN in the first place? Go for a standard Linux Distrubution such as Redhat or Mandrake and get the LILO do everything for you. I also have a machine which has win98,NT and LRH6.2 working without a hitch!!! -- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-732105 (R) Fax: 0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] HOW TO START LINUX
Hi, I have installed the LIN4WIN and everything went well until it asked me for my login name and password which was fine and then it asked for this [myloginname@host ]$ or something like that and I dont know what to press/type. I tried startx and my screen went blank and presses ctrl + alt + backspace and the screen came back on but to the same problem.. Please help me - Original Message - From: "Dale Kosan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 6:56 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] boot.ini Well, not as easy as one would think. I have NT and Linux at work on same the machine, along with 98 and 2000.Maybe someone else knows away.I could post the procedure givin to me if you like. The one thing is you should be running lilo.Let me know if you would like the info and I will post from work today...
Re: [newbie] HOW TO START LINUX
On Thursday 22 February 2001 16:41, you wrote: Hi, I have installed the LIN4WIN and everything went well until it asked me for my login name and password which was fine and then it asked for this [myloginname@host ]$ or something like that and I dont know what to press/type. I tried startx and my screen went blank and presses ctrl + alt + backspace and the screen came back on but to the same problem.. Please help me To stay out of X just press ctrl alt f1 or F2 upto 6. Login as root or user or not at all whatever. Then check out your name -it's on the last line on the right of the penguin. probaply localhost.localdomain of some sort. give that to win4lin to chew on. It shouldn't be that important :o) -- Semper avanti,sailing on Linux, Harm Bathoorn Free evermore. Hoek. NL. |~ | _ ___|__.__\_|_||_... \___\_|__||_|__|__ _\_Triade__NL__/
Re: [newbie] HOW TO START LINUX
Well since I know next to nothing about Linux, I thought this was the best thing to start with. - Original Message - From: "Mr S Ganesan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] HOW TO START LINUX why do u load LINUX4WIN in the first place? Go for a standard Linux Distrubution such as Redhat or Mandrake and get the LILO do everything for you. I also have a machine which has win98,NT and LRH6.2 working without a hitch!!! -- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-732105 (R) Fax: 0755-734016 Email[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in
