Even after having done several Linux installations (some a lot more
challenging than others), I am still a bit intimidated by it.
Now, I'm about to undertake another and I hope the PLUG brain trust can
provide some guidance, perhaps a concise installation checklist for this
next attempt. I have
First thing I would do is get familiar with clonezilla and the gparted live
CD. That will give yo a means of recovery and a means of partition editing.
Once you have the partitions in place you can the do some reading on
grub/grub2. But in all honesty I have had great success with mint/ubuntu
and v
Thanks Stephen. I did download the gparted live iso and used it to shrink
the ntfs partition. Then I created two new partitions, one for 40-gig and
one for 80-gig. But when I started to install the first new Linux distro
from a live Linux CD into the first new 40-gig partition, I couldn't tell
i
which distro?
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:23 PM, wrote:
>
> Thanks Stephen. I did download the gparted live iso and used it to shrink
> the ntfs partition. Then I created two new partitions, one for 40-gig and
> one for 80-gig. But when I started to install the first new Linux distro
> from a li
Joe,
Virtually all distros want a separate and specific partition for swap
formatted as swap.
Virtually all distros allow you to put everything else in a single
partition although there are reasons why you might want to break that up
into 2 or more partitions (and lots of people will give you diff
For triple booting, you'll get the biggest bang for the buck by going
with at least 4 partitions.
1) A partition for disto A
2) B partition for disto B
3) C swap partition that is shared between both distros
4) D home partition that is shared between both distros, this should be
your biggest pa
I would second this setup. With a shared home and swap. Then seperate / for
each.
On Feb 28, 2012 12:07 AM, "Brian Cluff" wrote:
> For triple booting, you'll get the biggest bang for the buck by going with
> at least 4 partitions.
>
> 1) A partition for disto A
> 2) B partition for disto B
> 3) C
Joe, Joe, Joe. You started out ok with this, (dual booting XP/Linux,
running VBox on Linux). Then somehow you introduced dual booting
multiple linux distros along with XP. Not a good idea in this day and age.
I think your objective should be to get to the point of having a single
linux boot, w
Eric Shubes wrote, in part:
> ok to ... dual boot XP/Linux, running VBox on Linux
> Then you introduced dual booting multiple linux distros along with XP.
> Not a good idea in this day and age.
> I think your objective should be to get to the point of having a single
> linux boot, with VBox runnin
on a handful of CD's or a DVD.
Keith Smith
--- On Tue, 3/6/12, j...@actionline.com wrote:
From: j...@actionline.com
Subject: Re: Seeking a concise Linux installation checklist
To: "Main PLUG discussion list"
Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 10:13 A
From: keith smith
> I agree with bloat. Seems Linux just keeps on growing.
Users keep demanding MORE FEATURES, so the space that software requires keeps
going up.
> I wonder if there is a "thin" Linux. Of course right out of the
> box. I have no time to optimize Linux or M$.
Of course. Ho
Keith Smith
--- On *Tue, 3/6/12, j...@actionline.com //* wrote:
From: j...@actionline.com
Subject: Re: Seeking a concise Linux installation checklist
To: "Main PLUG discussion list"
Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 10:13 AM
Eric Shubes wrote, in part:
>
On 03/06/2012 10:13 AM, j...@actionline.com wrote:
Eric Shubes wrote, in part:
ok to ... dual boot XP/Linux, running VBox on Linux
Then you introduced dual booting multiple linux distros along with XP.
Not a good idea in this day and age.
I think your objective should be to get to the point of
== Eric last wrote:
> You certainly do want your base OS which runs on the HW to be as
> reliable as possible. Any reason why you can't put your "old reliable"
> distro on the bare iron, then run VB on that with everything else as
> VMs? That's what I would shoot for.
It is my understanding that m
What was old reliable?
On Mar 6, 2012 5:39 PM, wrote:
> == Eric last wrote:
> > You certainly do want your base OS which runs on the HW to be as
> > reliable as possible. Any reason why you can't put your "old reliable"
> > distro on the bare iron, then run VB on that with everything else as
> >
I was thinking the same question.
If VB won't run on "old reliable", then find a "new reliable" that's as
close as possible to "old reliable" (afa the desktop goes), run "new
reliable" on bare iron, and run everything else as VMs under VBox.
FWIW, I've been running Ubuntu 10.4 LTS since 10.10
I actually have two "old reliable" systems. One is about a 5-year-old
Mandriva, but unfailingly stable). The other is PCLinuxOS 2009 with KDE
3.5. It is by far the best system I have ever used or seen. I have
PCLinuxOS 2011 on another system, just updated it today to 2012, and the
latest version
Thinking about it, Fedora 16 has an XFCE and LXDE spin and they now do
install form a live CD so you can grab and try out what you want
first.
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options
I was pretty happy with 16 under the hood once i got used to fedora again.
or you could get really out the
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