Discussion:
Installation Problems
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Vincent Lino
2004-12-04 16:33:21 UTC
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Is there a web site to help?
I am a experienced with all Windows systems and
would like to install a few flavors of Linux. Buying
a cd is not an option for me .

Thank You

Vin
Lenard
2004-12-04 19:46:28 UTC
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Post by Vincent Lino
Is there a web site to help?
I am a experienced with all Windows systems and would like to install a
few flavors of Linux. Buying a cd is not an option for me .
http://distrowatch.com/
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Moe Trin
2004-12-05 21:43:55 UTC
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Post by Vincent Lino
Is there a web site to help?
Thousands. Start here:

http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
http://tldp.org/guides.html
Post by Vincent Lino
I am a experienced with all Windows systems and
would like to install a few flavors of Linux.
652047 Jan 30 2004 Hardware-HOWTO
39240 May 3 2001 Install-Strategies
68456 Jul 8 2002 Installation-HOWTO
18850 Mar 13 2000 MultiOS-HOWTO
7749 Jan 21 2001 Multiboot-with-GRUB
8080 Apr 26 2001 Multiboot-with-LILO
22488 Dec 4 2000 Pre-Installation-Checklist
71626 Apr 4 2004 Unix-and-Internet-Fundamentals-HOWTO

That's just a few of the 480+ HOWTOs.
Post by Vincent Lino
Buying a cd is not an option for me .
http://www.distrowatch.com/
http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/

Both sites have access and information on roughly one hundred different
distributions you can download. Be advised that may be no small task, as
the more full featured distributions today can amount to 3000 Megabytes
of "stuff" or more. Also, if you have never used a non-microsoft O/S
before, things _are_ different. Often, it really is a good idea to buy
a regular distribution because of all of the extra documentation you get.
You can also go to a book store, and by a book on Linux that comes with
a GPL (Gnu Public License) version of one of the popular distros.

Old guy
Morten Juhl Johansen
2004-12-17 22:10:03 UTC
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Post by Vincent Lino
Is there a web site to help?
I am a experienced with all Windows systems and
would like to install a few flavors of Linux. Buying
a cd is not an option for me .
Thank You
Vin
UbuntuLinux (www.ubuntulinux.org), my own system at the moment, will send
you one for free. As for downloads, the other people suggested
DistroWatch; I suggest that you look at the distribution reviews at
www.linuxquestions.org. The documentation at LQ is pretty extensive. Also,
try searching for "beginner's distro" there - this issue is discussed...
frequently.

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