which linux should I use

[Jason Symes]

This sounds like music to my win98's ears, and extra time in my pocket.
Just a couple more questions. I see that, to install from hard disk, I must
create a bootable floppy. How is this done? If I were to install from cd,
would this have to be done and how?
I think that takes care of all my questions.
Have a good rest of new year's day.

At 10:17 AM 1/1/02 -0000, you wrote:
>Ok,  Here goes with the info on installing Redhat.
>
>I hope that most of it will be straight forward - just a load of dialog
>boxes that ask questions like keyboard, mouse, language, etc.
>
>I would personally reccommend going for a custom install rather than a
>workstation because this way you can choose what to install etc - but your
>choice.
>
>The main hard bit is when you get to partitioning.  Select to partition
>using disk druid.  You'll be shown a list of partitions.  Probably you'll
>only have one partition called something like hda1.  In any case this one
>partition will be labelled fat32 because it's your windows partition.  When
>you've selected your windows partition, tab to edit and press enter.  There
>are various fields, the only one to fill in is mount point, which should be
>the single letter forward slash (/).  Then press Ok.  You'll be back in the
>main disk druid screen, so tab to next and you'll be asked how much space
>should be used.  Maybe 500mb for root and 64mb for swap or whatever you
>consider to be right.  In any case, what this does is create two files in
>your c: drive called something like redhat.img and rh_swap.img or something.
>You will also create a boot disk which you can use to run Linux from the
>images on your hard disk.
>
>Finally, something I should have said at the beginning: this only works on
>fat32 partitions so it won't work if you're using nt/2000/xp on a ntfs
>partition.
>
>Hope this helps, Saqib
>
>
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