need a linux OS

[jrigby]

I am looking for a linux operating system that is easy to install and will work with windows 98se on the hard drive with it.
No I dont want just linux I need windows for gaming.
thanx!!

[Master of Reality]

Lycoris
Mandrake
Red Hat
ANY linux can be installed beside windows.
but what you need to do is install windows then install Linux. Make sure you partition your hardrive to have appropriately sized FAT so that there will be room for linux.

you can dl almost every distro at www.linuxiso.org

[ September 04, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

[Master of Reality]

this should be in the Linux section. Get off yer asses you windoze mods!

[rtgwbmsr]

Mandrake Linux can resize your partition to install the OS on the same partition as Windows.

Download it from:
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3

You just burn the ISO's to CD, put disk 1 in the drive, and restart.

Here is Mandrakesoft's official user's guide:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/82/en/user.html/

A specific guide to resizing partitons:
http://www.linuxbeginner.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=60

It may be a little hard to follow, so here is an easier to follow (and print    ) install guide:
http://linux.box.sk/newsread.php?newsid=442

Have fun!
If you need help, we are here.

BTW: Back up your important docs. In the rare event something does go wrong, it's nice to know you still have your important stuff. Not to scare you or anything    

-Dustin

[mr_nobody]

I've tried 5 different Linux distros, and so far my favorite is Red Hat. I can't say anything about Mandrake because I haven't bothered to play with it yet. Red Hat can install on a FAT partition. Ultimately, though, it would be best to get another HD and install your Linux on it. Make sure you install Windows first so you don't have to reinstall the Linux Loader (Windows automatically overwrites the MBR to make a PC automatically boot Windows every time it installs).

[Master of Reality]

my favorite is red hat too. I am gonna try Lycoris today (hopefully). I cant really comment on the other ones i have tried (Debian, Slackware, FreeBSD, Mandrake, OpenBSD, Smoothwall) because i only used most of them for about a day or two.

[RudeCat7]

What?! No Suse? Come on, try Suse!  

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by RudeCat7:
What?! No Suse? Come on, try Suse!    

I would, if they offered their ISO images for download, but since they don't, I won't.

[RudeCat7]

Yeah, I know. But after having used it for a while, I would more than gladly pay the full $40. Plus, if the funding goes to create a more user friendly distro, that helps newbies get involved, why not? They can always move on to the free distros later.

And, for advanced users in general, they can FTP the  components they need, if they wanted to.

Yeah, yeah, pain in the ass, I know.  

[voidmain]

I'm more than happy with RedHat, and because they allowed me to download their ISOs without hiding anything I have paid for boxed sets more than once... Maybe SuSe could learn something there...

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by Master of Reality / Bob:
this should be in the Linux section. Get off yer asses you windoze mods!

you're right, but i don't usually read the windows section much, it tends to be full of 'i want this and i want it now!' type stuff. fucking ring Microsoft support, i say. example:  

quote:I am looking for a linux operating system that is easy to install and will work with windows 98se on the hard drive with it.
No I dont want just linux I need windows for gaming.
thanx!!

actually, this is quite a friendly one, saying thanks and intrinsically it's  a linux question, however the phrasing is quite common for the windows forums, you know: "i want" "don't say ... because i don't want ..." "i need windows games because i am unable to conceive of any decent games on a unix type system" et c et c, you get the idea. when you've read it once, you've read it a thousand times...

[BlackSnow]

Have a look at http://www.newtolinux.org.uk/articles/whichdistro.html

It's got a list/review of the 5 most popular Distros.