Although, Shaun seems to want to install to a removable HD. In that case, a lot of the advice I gave him is wrong. He would probably want to do a dual boot system and he might want to boot from an Oralux CD. But he talked about his lack of time and I would not like the odds of him being able to configure something like that by himself very quickly.
So this may be a special case. But I still say for most people just starting out with linux, get yourself a used P/350 or 450 and install linux by accepting most (if not all) the default values.
At 12:26 PM 2/25/2005, Janina Sajka wrote:
No speculation is necessary. The Fedora/Redhat installer scripts have long supported a simple screen where one can identify the other OS one wants to have bootable in the boot loader.
Now, there are a few tricks to making this accessible. And, they're not rocket science either.
e.g. comment off the splash screen and the hidden menu directives, and put a Ctrl-G in the title.
How hard is that?
John Heim writes:
> At 09:29 AM 2/25/2005, Janina Sajka wrote:
> >I agree with the advice to put Linux on its own machine, but not for any
> >difficulty with configuring dual boot systems. Actually, it's not that
> >hard to put a reasonably accesible dual boot system together.
>
>
>
> But you're not a new user. I think installing linux is daunting enough
> without that additional complication.
>
> I haven't installed anything but debian for a couple of years but I know
> the debian installer gives you options to create a dule-boot system. Some
> of the other installers may be even easier. But a new user is going to want
> to take all the defaults. The Red Hat 7.3 installer pretty much allowed you
> to do that and it got even better in 8 and 9. By now, you should be able to
> install fedora by just pressing enter over and over.
>
> I think if a newbie tries to do a dual-boot installation it's going to ask
> questions they are not going to know how to answer.
>
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