Hi Everyone,
I don't really answer questions, I generally ask the questions. I suppose the only way to give back to the community is to let you know how I get on, which bits were easy, which bits were hard.
When I first came to linux in 2005 everyone recommended Red Hat. I found it really difficult to use (I found out later that I didn't have it set up properly), but I no longer had the blue screen of death, so Linux was worth sticking at.
Then I was speaking to someone about the difficulties I was having with then Fedora and they said for what you want to do you need Suse you will find it so user friendly. So in 2006 I installed Suse 10.0 on my machine and they were right.
Since then I have wanted to multiboot, so I could experience other flavours of Linux. I asked here and it all seemed like Greek.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ighlight=nappy
saikee - has written loads of stuff on multibooting, check out his signature.
Then support for Suse 10.2 ended and I have put off upgrading, because I was scared that I would get it wrong and I would break my machine. Well I finally bit the bullet and did it this week.
What I have to say is it was a lot easier than I expected. For some reason although I haven't really worked with a terminal in 2 years, previous questions now made more sense. So I now have on my machine:
Windows XP
Suse 11.1
Fedora 10
Linux XP Desktop 2006
It isn't quite right yet, but I can boot into all of them and get online. I have fallen in love with GParted live CD and discovered Puppy Linux.
I have also tried to install Ubuntu and Mandriva, they didn't work, so I will be asking some questions elsewhere on Linux Questions.
What I have learnt?
Eventually something sinks in. (Even if you have to come back to it years later).
There are people on these forums who have the answers and can explain them to you.
It is quite easy to multiboot, but
1. back up, back up, back up before you start.
2. make sure you have another machine you can get online with to ask questions when you get stuck.
3. Remember that individual distributions have their own forums and can offer help specific to your distro.
To get the answer you need, you have to ask the right question. Quite often when you are new, or even when you have been running Linux as long as me you don't actually know the right question to ask.
When you manage to do something new, tell everyone about it. I have written very brief explanations of how to do things on other forums. Mainly because when I have researched a problem it has been the very clear precise explanations of a newbie that has helped me to understand.
Thank you to the Linux community and Linux Questions in particular.
Regards
Nappy501
/Proud to be using Linux April 2005/
/Fedora Core 2 04/05: Suse 10.0 03/06/
/Suse 10.2 08/07: Suse 11.1, multiboot 07/09/
