linux on win xp

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hhpeter

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I'm a curious guy is not that I miss something but this curiosity drives me crazy I want to try linux on my xp system I found a few distributions interesting and looking good like ubuntu, opensuse and freespire and I want to install one of them on my system.
1.Can I run both OS's on my computer?How hard is to install linux os on my system?just follow the steps on the install file or are there some tricks?.............and the questions can continue any help is welcomed
thanks
 
FreeSpire is a cinch to install. It's the most user-friendly OS installation I've seen. It is a big download (600 some megabytes) but it is worth it. The only thing I don't like about FreeSpire is that it takes a long time to start up on my rig. On a gig of RAM it should be fine though.

~Jordan
 
I haven't tried, but Ubuntu will also work.

Basically any Linux you install, it should be able to partition free space on your hard drive and allow you to dual boot XP and Linux.
 
Linux uses a totally different set of manual commands at a prompt like the Grub or Lilo console just to boot the distro or using a universal type loader installed into the XP (not Vista at this time) mbr. Daensmall, PC Linux, and a few more small distros like Zenwalk are gaining in popularity due to the continued developments to bridge the gaps between Windows and Linux.
 
cybergomer said:
I haven't tried, but Ubuntu will also work.

Basically any Linux you install, it should be able to partition free space on your hard drive and allow you to dual boot XP and Linux.
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There are tutorials for installing Grub into XP's mbr for dual booting. Surprisingly despite Vista's improved drive tools GParted as the Gnome Partition Editor has done excellently here for partitioning two ide drives along with two satas. It will be used for creating a primary for Solaris here too when that comes about.
 
yah... i have tried setting up ubuntu partitioning hard drive.. you really have to pay attention.. cause its very easy to mess up and loose your files... you have to create a couple partitions for ubuntu.. one the root and others that i forget... i would run linux now.. but my wifi adapter doesn't work with linux..
 
shawn_selig29 said:
yah... i have tried setting up ubuntu partitioning hard drive.. you really have to pay attention.. cause its very easy to mess up and loose your files... you have to create a couple partitions for ubuntu.. one the root and others that i forget... i would run linux now.. but my wifi adapter doesn't work with linux..
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Linux is just like dos in many ways while having a different set of instructions in it's own language there. But you will find that Linux is far from being memory hungry like you see too often running the larger applications and some games where intensity is greatest on the graphics. The problem seen was with not finding drivers for the dsl service used here.

The root and "swap" partition for virtual memory which often isn't needed for the small distros. But you can also use one swap partition when running more then one distro in order to save on drive space. :D

JordanII said:
Freespire uses the live CD version to do partitioning and it is very easy and graphical.
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There are a large number of live distros that can also do the same since either "CFDisk" the Linux version of fdisk or GParted may be included along with the release. You will find all these things included in the iso image rather then the segments you may have to download separately.
 
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