Curious Newbie
i am sure someone has mentioned this in the past, but i didnt see any posts that really could help(although i didnt look too hard). perhaps someone knows of a thread that could help.
Anyway, i am an experienced windows user and feel that i have learned just about all of windows(to some extent). i am looking into linux to learn something different and simply experiment. i tried it before, but got discouraged with redhat. i was looking into mandrake or suse because i hear they are pretty good for beginners. does anyone have any reccomendations? i would like to use linux for office applications, maybe GIMP, and if i can find a good webdesign program similar to maybe dreamweaver. also, if i dual boot, with my current windows and shrink the partition to make room for linux, which is the best method so that i can access my windows files from linux? can this be done? i think i read that linux can read and write fat formatted partitions, would i need to convert my ntfs partition to a fat32? thanks! |
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thanks a lot! i will check into all of the suggestions and see how things go.
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I am also brand new to Linux. The Linux Dist. i am installing on my computer is the new version of Mepis. It has a Windows feel to it and is great for beginners such as myself. I tried various CDLive versions of different dist. but i had a hard time choosing between Ubuntu or Mepis. There is more apps. in Mepis as well as codecs which i found out a few days ago viewing some multimedia. I still like Ubuntu but i think i will focus on that more when i know my way around Mepis as well as having more knowledge on the commands ect. Edited for spelling and extra content. |
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I am working on it as we speak. I had a very hard time getting Windows XP to reconise my new 120g hd. I had to use an older version of FDISK from Win98 to get a partition working. Windows is now formating it and soon it will be ready for use. My plan is to install Mepis and try dual booting. If i get that nailed down, then ill eventually try to tri-boot with Ubuntu. Im just slightly nervous of ediitng the files in Linux as thats something i very rarely did in all my years of working with Window... Thanks |
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Luckily, with Mepis, you don't have to do a lot of direct editing of files. Even the /etc/apt/sources.list file you edit through Synaptic Package Manager. |
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For my first attempt of installing Linux, my HD setup looks like this- 40g Drive: hda0 40g WinXp NTFS 120g Drive: hdb0 10g Mepis ext3 hdb1 1g swap hdb2 100g FAT32 Ok, what is confusing me now if the difference between when it asks to be installed to /home and /root. What exactly is it asking me to do as i just left the settings on how mepis wants to be installed with ne selecting the partitions. As far as i can see, /home and /root are been installed on the 10g partition but i got the feeling i may have messed up my installation allready..... What do you think? |
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It's the base of all the directories, kind of like C:\ The only difference is that in Windows C:\Documents and Settings lives in C:\ and has to live in C:\ In Linux, /home can be a subdirectory of / or it can be a separate partition that only appears to live as a subdirectory of / The advantage of having a separate /home partition is that if you reinstall or upgrade Mepis (or install a new distro), all of your settings will be completely unaffected. |
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So, what did i do wrong when it came to not making a seperate /home partition? and how owuld i have done this? Also, whats it mean by mount and unmount? deivces mounted on your dekstop? |
In linux, you have to tell the computer when you want to use a particular device as a part of the file system. That is "mounting". You also have to tell the computer when you do not want to use it anymore. That is "unmounting". This can be automated using automount, like how Mepis does it.
The seperate /home partition is so that when you reinstall linux for whatever reason, your user settings and data wil not be wiped out as well. |
It can be helpful to have a separate /home partition, but it's not the end of the world if you don't. It's relatively easy to make a backup of it, install/reinstall, and restore. The nice part is that Linux isn't like Windows. You don't have to assume that you'll be reinstalling over and over when things go wrong.
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I don't keep a /home partition. I find it much cleaner to just back up my preferences and settings and then copy my .thunderbird and .mozilla folders into the new home folder. Everything else I don't mind redoing if I'm installing a new distro. It's just another option. If you didn't do it, don't worry. It's a convenience that's available if you want to take advantage of it. |
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Another issue i just ran into is that as the 'root' user, i can not change my screen resolution and that it says i need to install something but yet, on the CDLive version, i could change the resolution freely. Also, for the Weather program on Mepix, no matter how hard i try, i wont give reports or current temp from where im located. Any ideas? |
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