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Started by Eric Cornell
Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:00
Re: Assume that I want to Install Linux - FOR Absolutly FREE$$ How?
Author: Eric Cornell
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:00
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One more thing. Can you do all of this without registering? Eric Cornell <ejcornell@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:... > I want to try to install Linux for free. Really free! I keep hearing that it > is free, yet you have to purchase a $10 to $29.95 to $49.95 CD-ROM. I know > nothing of Linux. I am grudgingly running Windows98. Is there a web page for > dummies who want to take advantage of all this free "Linux" stuff on the > Internet; and install it for absolutely "free". A web page for Linux Dummies > so to speak. Or Linux, from start to finish for the unskilled and really > financially challenged. What files do I need to download? Is Linux one big > EXE that I can install from Windows Explorer? I have no idea. Currently I > have an 8 GB HD that is formatted into two FAT32 partitions. One 2 GB > Windows98 partition and the other is a 6 GB WinData partition. I will get a > "free" hard drive from some where. What is the minimal HD size recommended > for the operating system, a cute GUI front-end, a few GUI themes, networking > dialer capabilities, email, web browsing, etc.? Do you the reader see where > this is going? I have browsed a few web pages and have basically said, huh! > I do not and will not reformat my hard drive to do this. Other hard ware > that I am using are PII 400 o/c 448, 64 MB SDRAM PC100, external SCSI Zip > 100, Pioneer CD-ROM 24x, Creative Labs Riva TNT 1 and an IWill BS100 > (SCSI/IDE/PCI) motherboard. > > Well that ends my long winded soliloquy! > > Thanks > >
Re: Assume that I want to Install Linux - FOR Absolutly FREE$$ How?
Author: Rob Lahaye
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:00
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Hi, First of all, don't cross post so intensively. First try a few and gather the response. Well, "for free" means you have to download a whole bunch of megabytes. RedHat 6 is a good 600 Mb's. I have some experience with RedHat and Mandrake. www.redhat.com/mirrors.html will tell you from where to download. I would recommend to download everthing first to a secure place in your local environment (I did it to a workstation in my own network). Next start the installation from that local machine. The crucial files are usually in a directory called "RedHat", with three subdirectories: "RPMS", "base" and "instimage". RPMS contiains all the installation packages, while base and instimage are the programs used for guiding the installation. Be sure that after download all the files in base and instimage have the execution bit set, otherwise your installation will fail. Follow the instructions how to make image files. You can use dos rawrite.exe (from a directory called 'dosutils') to make your own boot disks for linux (images for bootdisks are in a directory called 'images'). Mandrake has a similar setup, but instead of calling the root directory RedHat, they call it Mandrake. You need also the Mandrake boot disks for its installation. For Mandrake you also can download the ISO file for burning your own CDrom. However, if you are using a modem to download the whole stuff, you'll be better of buying a recent CD (Cheap bytes offer then for less than 5 dollars). I recommend you to get one way or the other the installation files near you (download or CD), since a newcommer to Linux always needs to install several times before you've found out how the optimal installtion procedure should go. Hopefully this puts you a bit on the right track, Rob.
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