Linux/Unix - Which One

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Which One

Freed177

2002-09-28, 8:13 pm

Ok I am totaly new when it comes to linux which version of OS should I get to study for linux+

ruscorp

2002-09-28, 8:57 pm

I would say RedHat, but I believe others would argue SuSE. They are all available at linuxiso.org

Supertech

2002-09-28, 9:03 pm

LINUX ADMINISTRATION: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE, 2ND EDITION
by Steve Shah
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company
the book's companion CD-ROM includes the full version of Red Hat Linux 7, the leading Linux distribution--not a trial or demo version. But the book covers the latest versions of all leading Linux distributions, so you'll get learn a lot even if you don't use Red Hat.

I used this book to study for the Linux+ beta. I liked it.

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Mr. Linux Guy

2002-09-30, 5:28 am

Red Hat and Debian. RH is the most popular, but the Linux+ also covers Debian utiltities like apt-get which and dselect, which only come with Debian, and you should know how to use those as well.

Freed177

2002-09-30, 9:46 pm

Ok thank you. Ok another ? are you able two duel boot with win2000 pro and linux. or do I have two get a third party software.
thanks for your input

Boulware5

2002-10-01, 2:51 am

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Originally posted by Freed177
Ok thank you. Ok another ? are you able two duel boot with win2000 pro and linux. or do I have two get a third party software.
thanks for your input

This setup is fairly easy.

1. Load windows 2000 onto the machine, leaving a partition for Linux.

2. Load Linux into the parition you created.

3. Make the Linux root partition the active partition. Very important.

And if you want to access your windoze drive in Linux, make sure you format using FAT. Linux does support NTFS but it's new and still occasionally has problems. Linux does, however, speak FAT very well.

That's the jist of a very good screensavers article in which I cannot find at the moment - but you get the idea.

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