Fedora Core 5 is quite easy to install and set up. If Windows is already installed FC5 will automatically detect it and install a boot loader that will let you choose which OS you want to run whenever you reboot the machine.
Norm Higgs http://forbiddenpc.com https://www.linkedin.com/e/fpf/4018099 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 11:46 AM Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] New here! > Well I can see that OK but for a start I will want to partition the one > drive and have XP on one and Linux on the other Part. > > While I could put them on separate drive I guess I will want the second free > for back up. > > I would like to know what Linux system and how to download and install a > free one as a start? > > Any suggestions? > > > > -------Original Message------- > > From: Robert C Wittig > Date: 23/09/2006 13:27:10 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] New here! > > Ian wrote: > > > I have been using Windows computers since 91 but never Linux. I would like > > to put one of the free Linux operating systems on my two hard drive > computer > > wIth XP on the C/Drive but do not know which or how to go about it. Hope > to > > learn here. > > This is what I have done: > > My computer(s) all have several 5.25" front-accessible drive bays. Most > computers do, nowadays. > > I ordered a bunch of drive trays/drive cages, and installed them in my > machines, making one specific tray the one where the operating system is > to be installed: http://tinyurl.com/j468z > > Then, I mounted the OS hard drive into a drive cage, and plugged it into > the OS tray, and when the computer started... voila... the OS ran. > > Then, I was able to use the second drive tray I installed for my data. > > And when I want to try another operating system out, all I have to do is > grab a spare hard drive (something old, if you are just messing around), > pop it into a cage, and start the computer with the new/empty hard drive > in the operating system tray, and install a new OS onto it. > > Doing this, you can have a lot of different operating systems on a lot > of different old hard drives, all running (one at a time) on a single > computer, without having to mess with a boot loader for multiple > operating systems, or the possibility of messing up or erasing your > current OS, while doing a new install. > > Also... because all of the data is on the second hard drive... as long > as the file system on that data drive is readable/writable by all the > OS's you might want to plug in... you will be able to work on your data, > no matter which OS you happen to be using. > > > > -- > -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ > .. http://robertwittig.net/ > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, please email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
