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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonkie who wrote (2363)	11/2/2000 11:56:30 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2615

There are online iso images of Linux distributions. Many pc's today can boot directly from the cdrom into the install and installing redhat a few years back had for the most part auto sizing and partitioning of your hard disk. The problem with installing Linux is getting the gui up automatically. Xfree86 fails plug and play often. Tom Watson tosiwmee

To: zonkie who wrote (2363)	11/6/2000 1:06:45 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

Does Polly really want a cracker that will partition his hard disk? The answer is yes to your previous question about is anybody working on it etc.. A group we are investing in hopefully, will have a download solution to Linux setup on their site by middle of next year. It is an extension of their completely rebuildable source tree concept. (vs Red Hat rpms and slackware package tool) Now I doubt that you can actually partition the hard disk on the fly as of course (unless you were being humorous), that may cause problems with whatever operating system is doing the downloading. But it would be possible soon to download a certified piece of code that would allow you to partition-magic like shrink your windows partitions, free up space for Linux and do an auto-hardware recognition install hands free sipping on cahmpagne and coffee. But hardware can be problematic. One guy I know gave up on Linux when a Caldera install tried to find a partition to install when he had used up 4 primary partitions for windows...! Why oh why? 4 is your limit in primary partitions. The problems that require planning and thinking in two system installs have been worked out and now are better documented. But to back a guy into a corner and say here is the auto install there is no issues and no hard choices to later think about is a lie. The way to install Linux is to realize that there are 20 ways to do it and what you will like best takes some conceptualizing. Right now Today ---> Still I can show you a good way to install in one short paragraph and givea a general solution to the guy how has one gige or more free on his HD. The install of software takes less time than Windows 98 and works on the boot generally. Installing the graphical user interface and getting the mouse working is about another hour of decisions for the neophyte. But with XF86Setup it should be straightforward. You can be using GNOME spreadsheets and surfing the net with Netscape within 3 hours. With a Slackware install you could run into some puzzlers about making a boot disk if your hardware does not boot off the CDROM. It depends depends depends.. The truth is simpler solutions are not universal with all people's setups. But that is changing with the higher end distributions. The distributions that will set up automatically from the CDROM right now are Slackware, Red Hat, SUSE, Caldera, Storm, Turbo, and Caldera. Caldera tries an auto hardware recognition that isn't bad but the paritioning could stumble. Back up your windows partition an registry first. My advice. No matter what you install including Windows 98 and take your machine apart and document every card and the MOBO too as to manufacture, FCC number, model no and go out on the net and look up info on it. Get your ethernet's DOS driver install setup code and be prepared to use it to set the card. Linux will still not run all USB stuff, all scanners, all parallel port hardware that uses ECP or most winmodems. You should be sure your hardware works with Linux first. ZDnet has a hardware site. linhardware.com netlinux.dynip.com