I have Dell inspiron N 4010 with 500gb Hard Disk and 4GB Ram with i3 processor. I am using Windows 7 and Windows Xp through dual boot. When i tried to install Red Hat Linux 9 on a free partition .It started but the installation Hanged at

EHci hd usb 2.0 .......

like something.


Help me is there any another method to run RH 9 linux on my laptop . Any suggestions are welcome

Hi,

welcome to LQ. Is there any particular reason you want to install Red Hat 9? It is an ancient and unsupported distribution: release in 2003! Are you open to running something current and supported?

Cheers,

Evo2.

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First of all Thank u for ur reply evo2

I am new to Linux,but very exited to use it.

Particularly i like Red Hat distributions and i found RH 9 on net.

As u said it is old ,please suggest me a new good distribution
. Especially i am a java fellow Love to develop applications in Java and C. And i Also want some server capabilities for my system and database facilities.

More than this I have to install Linux as one of my Os rather than Virtual machine for My Laptop

The free version of Red Hat is available at the site below.

http://www.centos.org/modules/tinyco...ndex.php?id=30

If you are not necessarily looking for a distribution oriented to running servers, check the link below for some options. If you scroll down the page, you will see on the right a heading "Page Hit Ranking" and a list of their most popular with links to each:

http://distrowatch.com/

Does Fedora 19 is installable on my hardware

Dell inspiron n4010
500 GB HDD
4 GB Ram
intel i3 processor

Yes, it will, along with pretty much ANY modern Linux distribution.

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Any current Linux should install.

Fedora doesn't come with various components which are patented in the USA, which can be annoying because you have to get them yourself; it's quicker to get Korora, which is a Fedora installer that comes with everything you need. Fedora is only supported for a year, so you do need to re-install regularly.

Mint and PCLinuxOS are very good. If you get the long-term support version of Mint (currently version 13), that will last until 2017. PCLinuxOS is what we call rolling-release. It doesn't have versions, but is continually upgraded: update your system once a month and it will last as long as your computer.

Look at the reviews on this site and those linked to by http://distrowatch.gdsw.at/ to learn more about them.

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Fedora 19 will install on that

Now if you LIKE and WANT to "get your hands dirty" and fix things
-- like keeping a "classic" 1950 / 60's ford car running---

if you LIKE and WANT to tinker
and LIKE to solve problems and find solving problems and fixing then FUN

then fedora would be a good choice


BUT
if you want a "windows" replacement
fedora is NOT it
nor is CentOS6.4 or the NOT FREE RHEL 6.4


A lot of people like Linux Mint for new to linux users
that or OpenSUSE
both are good Operating Systems
http://www.linuxmint.com
http://www.opensuse.org

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Personaly I use and woulod recommend a branch of ubuntu (i.e. Lubuntu Xubuntu'what I currently run').

Dell Inpiron 1750
500 GB HD
8GB ramm
Xubuntu
12.014 LTS ( Long Term Support)