question about installing on harddrive
Forum: HD Install
Topic: question about installing on harddrive
started by: flamesfan
Posted by flamesfan on April 29 2006,02:41
does anybody know a good site or doc somewhere with step by step or very easy instruction for a newbie to linux
Posted by kerry on April 29 2006,04:15
How new? This is not what i really consider a good linux to begin with, i would recommend somthing like mepis or ubuntu to start then move on to others once you get the hang of things. Look here->< http://distrowatch.com/ >
Posted by pr0f3550r on April 29 2006,11:48
Gurk, linux has changes a lot in the last ten years. Now you need a different training for every major distro.The one I learn the most is RUTE:
< http://freshmeat.net/projects/rute/ >
Posted by piccolo on April 30 2006,18:20
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| This is not what i really consider a good linux to begin with |
Why not Kerry?
Many people here are newbies because the DSL can run Live from cdrom drive being easy and fast to test it without modifying the previous operative system installed to hard disk.
Other Linux distros need a hardly hard disk install process for a newbie. In fact, that delayed my entry to Linux
Also Knoppix run Live but DSL is 10 times more small and also run over the old computers with few resources being they frequently the target for tests.
I had wanted that my first distro had been DSL as somebody affirm on this post:
< Laugh or Cry ? >
The documentation for any software is useful but, my personal opinion, is ever very weary.
I believe that doing something simple on Linux with help from searching and reading the documentation only for that specific topic be better than to begin first from reading all the documentation.
I recommend Flamesfan to begin gradually. You do a day with DSL a thing that does frequently with Windows, another day another one, and so on.
Posted by lovdsl on April 30 2006,19:53
Posted by kerry on April 30 2006,21:42
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Why not Kerry? Many people here are newbies because the DSL can run Live from cdrom drive being easy and fast to test it without modifying the previous operative system installed to hard disk. Other Linux distros need a hardly hard disk install process for a newbie. In fact, that delayed my entry to Linux Also Knoppix run Live but DSL is 10 times more small and also run over the old computers with few resources being they frequently the target for tests. I had wanted that my first distro had been DSL as somebody affirm on this post: < Laugh or Cry ? > The documentation for any software is useful but, my personal opinion, is ever very weary. I believe that doing something simple on Linux with help from searching and reading the documentation only for that specific topic be better than to begin first from reading all the documentation. I recommend Flamesfan to begin gradually. You do a day with DSL a thing that does frequently with Windows, another day another one, and so on. |
There are many live cd's that are built specficaly for newbie ease of use. In my opinion DSL does provide some of that, but it's main goal is to be fast,have a light foot print, and run on older machines. I just feel that a more fully gui system is the best start. Alot of dsl is still semi text based for example: one would expect to see icons in a file browser but if you open emelfm(a name that would give them no clue) gui you find it's actually text based just nicly organized. Etc...
It's just my opinon, it means nothing,just offered a suggestion.
Posted by lovdsl on April 30 2006,22:47
Everyone is entitled to an opinion.