rezaman

Hello Guys,

I am a newbie with linux but i've been using techsupportforum since few weeks now it is very nice and everyone over here is very helpful, my question to you guys is that i want to install a Linux Fedora OS on my pc as my friends told me that its safe and better then windows, I have two options either i can install it as the second OS on my hard drive or i'll install it on VMware, if i install it as dual boot OS will i have to format my hard drive? I have got alot of stuff in there if not that's gonna be better for me that other thing is that from where i can download Linux Fedora which has everything as my friend told me that it has office,mozilla, irc client chat I am not sure which version he is talking about because he also dont know it, lol. can you guys help?

fredobrien

The best way is to put it on a second hard drive. You will 1 drive widows & 1 for linux. Fred

K-B

What Fred said is the best way, but not the only. If you have plenty of free space on your hard drive, you can install Linux on the same drive. You will not need to format the drive. Linux can re-size your Windows partition to make room for a Linux partition. You can download Fedora:
http://fedoraproject.org/

Just get the latest stable version.

rezaman

Ok, Yes i went to the website and should i download Fedora 8 or Fedora 7 and i should download I386 or 86_64, which Fedora is good you think? does both of them supports anaconda installers?

Thanks guys.

K-B

You'll want 7. 8 is a test release. I386 is for regular computers, 86_64 is for computers with 64 bit processors. If you're not sure what you have, post your complete system specs here and we'll try to help you figure out which you have.
All fedora releases use Anaconda.

rezaman

Below is my CPU and Mobo, I Have a 350G HD, And a eVGA 258 MB Video card. I am hoping that linux doesnt format anything when i install it on my E: partition which has alot of important data in it.

Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 Allendale 2.0GHz 2M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor


GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard

K-B

You can use the 64 bit version.

You will have to make sure you specify (during the installation) that you want it to simply resize your Windows partition, not remove it. Also, you'll want to make sure you have a backup of your most important info, data loss isn't common but it can happen when you're doing stuff like making new partitions, etc.

rezaman

Ok i was trying to Install Linux yesterday on my system it booted properly I choose the first option where it says Install Linux and then it went to the next screen where it asked me to check the media so i did it, but thats the further I am able to go, once it checks the media the system restarts and never starts linux back again so i tried without checking the media i skipped that option and then same thing happens, I dont know what i am doing wrong?

rezaman

let me ask you guys something I downloaded fedora and it is an ISO image and burned the image to the cd, do i have to extract the iso image and then burn it to the cd or the ISO image will intall the linux? I'm confused *sigh*

K-B

You download the ISO image, then use a burning software such as Nero (I prefer ImgBurn - easy to use, reliable & free - www.imgburn.com)

You do not simply burn that file onto the CD, but you select the option that says Burn Image to Disk or something like that. If you use ImgBurn, it's really simple, you just locate the file on disk and click burn.

rezaman

Ok i was able to intall linux i changed the dvd and used imageburn to burn this time and it worked thank you very much, how can i install mIRC and MSN,YAHOO on linux?

K-B

You'll have to find other clients that are compatible for Linux. I use GAIM for IM, I don't have an IRC client.