Re: installing Linux

[Rai'da Al-Zu3bi <raida_lists at yahoo dot com>]

Thanks for this useful advice and information Ahmed.  The scariest thing to me about moving to Linux (as convinced as I am in the importance of FOSS particularly for Arab non-profits/voluntary societies) is the lack of readily available support/experts for it nearby.

 

I think I can borrow a copy of "kiss the blue screen of death goodbye" from a friend.  I'll take it from there and see how it goes.   In any case, I'm "sacrificing" my old Pentium II laptop for this experiment.  All in the name of FOSS!

 

Salam,

R

ahmed naqsh <ahnaqsh at scs-net dot org> wrote:

Umm , but be sure to do your homwrok beforehand , since it won't be time
for it when you face a ciomputer that won't work for some reason or
another . I remeber spending over 3 days trying to get redhat9 to
install and failing , each time for a different reason , to get it to do
that .
If you want my advice , get a good book beforehand , like "Running
Linux" from oreilly , it's excellent and will help you throuh the
installation . You can download it , illegally , from various sources
around the web , in .pdf or .chm format . And also there is one titled
something like "Leave the Blue Screen of Death behind : go linux " ,
which is also ok . I do not know whether it is legal to download such
books , but come on , who's gonna pay a month's salary for a book when
it can be downloaded in five minutes ?
There is a very interesting site called sleekfreak ( that isn't the
exact address ) , which will let you download many books , only if
you're running linux , which is no good , if you *want* to run linux .
But you can cheat it easily , get a download manager and make it
identify itself as , say , Lynx , and download away . Getright should do
the job .


Rai'da Al-Zu3bi wrote:

> Excellent. If I manage to do it myself, I shall pass on this knowledge
> to others, particularly the Arab NGOs I work with. One of the things
> I'd like to eventually do is to get Arabeyes to give a training
> workshop on Arabic FOSS to NGOs here in Jordan...but let's take it one
> step at a time =)
>
> Thanks again.
> R
>
> */Nadim Shaikli /* wrote:
>
> --- Rai'da Al-Zu3bi wrote:
> > Thanks so much. Will do this weekend. Just one
> > question: will this partition my drive or turn it into
> > a Linux machine? If it's the latter, any tips on how
> > to keep both Windows and Linux? Sorry this is turning
> > into an on-line course on Linux installation =)
>
> This is all an investment in getting people to the RIGHT
> side of the fence :-) You have 2 options, you can install
> linux on your HardDrive and have it be the sole partition
> there (ie. it will occupy and take-up the entire drive) or
> you can have a dual-boot machine. Your best bet if you want
> to go the dual-boot route is to already have your windows
> installation there and then you simply load-in the Linux CD
> and follow the directions (you'll want to make sure you have
> a partition you can install linux on and you can repartition
> your drive using fdisk and/or "partition-magic", etc). Once
> Linux is installed, it will detect the other windows partition
> and add it to a "lilo" boot menu which will give you the option
> to choose what it is that you want to boot into once you turn the
> machine on.
>
> There are a number of very good sites out there on the web that
> are worth a quick read (google is your friend); here is one,
>
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO
>
> Salam.
>
> - Nadim
>
>
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