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Choosing Linux Package? Advice Please.
Will try XOSL (since it says one can experiment in "virtual" environment without making irrevocable changes). Thanks again for your valuable time and help. These boot loaders are fairly easy to install and figure out, try it! On the other hand there is absolutely nothing wrong trying to learn and do it the

A Question About Operating Systems
The OS/2 Warp Server came on CD and has an easy install button (and it does have a custom install button too if you want to "design your own"). The crowd loved it and was cheering it on as 64 gigabyte partition, has Peer support, you can use the OS/2 GUI or a command line, and it's completely internet ready.

The Linux Cover -- Dissertation on the Uselessness of Linux ...
I never had luck with LILO (yes, I know most people do) so any attempt at making a homebrew distro to sell would have whatever workaround I use, as well as LILO The ultimate distro, that being the one that is as easy to install as a Windows "distro", is within reach becuse of the efforts at inventing FreeDOS.

FWT Newsletter - Weekly - January 3, 2005
(I had to borrow access to MOSIAC in order to get the file, which is the EASY way, but maybe there is another way.) The fix involves making a modification to WARP installation diskette #1. My first attempt didn't work, but it was because I had modified my diskette #1 (to work with my CD ROM).

Linux Sucks!! Long live Windows
It is easy to install, 99% pre-configured, uses the elegant and easy-to-use K Desktop Environment, and comes with a complete set of administration tools, so anyone with The manual tackles, fearlessly and with admirable clarity, the task of getting first-time Linux users comfortable making configuration changes,

Newly acquired Hard drive
For what its worth - the PC is running as an "Easy Install" mode, (vs. the Ű"Advanced Install"). I know of the following resources for doing this: Ű to just boot to a command line and still have full networking services available to you; this is a great aid in making a server stable for the really long term.

A paper I'm writing... - large post
Also somewhere in the course of the install it lost the ability to see the (standard ATAPI) CD-ROM drive. How often have you had to partition anything in .... that someone cared enough to work without the corporate cooperation or that the company making their product decided to cooperate with Linux developers.

Can I install Slackware from my dos partition?
OS/2 will always install itself to C: if you use the Easy Install; and, if it finds DOS on C: during Easy Install, Dual Boot will be installed. To put OS/2 on it's own partition, you must install Boot Manager on your first disk, which means making room for a one MB partition on that first drive.

Need to make more room for windows partition
Lavish <SNIP> I have tried to install Red Hat 7.1 but the problem occurs when it asks for making partitions. It shows 2 drives viz. hda1 and hda5. I try to partition the secondary partition but sadly am not able to do so. It does not let me put the /boot on the secondary partition saying not enough space.

In search of the missing gigs
None of these things are limitations imposed by having it installed into a Windows partition, they're limitations incured by making an OS small enough for a You tried to make it seem that installing BeOS into a Windows partition imposed limitations on BeOS. You claimed that "it's extremely easy to install a

5 Reasons to Move from Windows to Linux Turn into List ...
So I need sugestions for a Linux Package that will be fairly easy to install and setup to dual boot with XP. I've been doing some reading and found numberous Be aware that if your XP partition is using NTFS, you'll only be able to read it from linux, not write. It might be worth making a smaller FAT32 partition

Retrospect 3.0, System 7.5.3, and Virtual Memory
I found Mandrake and RedHat extremely easy to install. Clearly it doesn't have to be a problem. You failed to read my comment before you snipped it and accused me of mincing Installing a new OS on an existing system means the user has to grapple with things like partition sizes, data loss, file system types,

Advice please
How do I go about making more room for windows, another 2 GB or so from the 8.4 GB hd. I have no problem loosing whatever I have loaded on the larger hd, as mandrake is so easy to install. Me I am the opposite, every now and then I give more room to Linux and less to WinBlows. Anyway I would get a copy of

Macs have ease of use? Hah!
... effect LILO. so if you don't need the partitions and you want an easy install go to maxstors website or use the disk that came with your hard drive, Partition Magic 6.0 is not compatible with XP partitions (at least in doing a re-size), version 7 is required. Perhaps making some minor modification to the

Truly Pathetic
Now maybe things have changed, but you gotta admit, Windows is pretty peachy when it comes to making things fairly easy to install, use, and finding software to At times I've skirted disaster (and I'm still trying to figure out how to get back a 12 Gig partition that I "lost" the mount point for - long story),

Totally disgusted. . .
If you have no name video and sound hardware don't expect any easy install. Sorry, but thats life! Never was expecting it (see my second posting on this thread). Fingers crossed Big blue has had problems for years now (making it easier for somebody like MS to push them out of the limelight).

Size of Partition?
At this point I'd recommend Mepis, with the LiveCD and an extremely easy install program. That's not to say Ubuntu is bad. I've had limited experience, since when I had to My servers will be Stable, and I may make my workstation Unstable, with the ability to boot a Stable partition in case something goes wrong.

adding OS/2 to a Windoze 98 mach. (WAS: Dual boot maintenance ...
Easy to install and uninstall. Easy to use. You can also use HOT together with Office 97, even though Office 97 lacks support for digital signat [. ..... MKBISO > > This small program is used to create a bootable ISO file based off an > image > of a diskette or partition.

Many DOS/Linux partitions scheme on 28.5 Gig
If at all possible, I am trying to keep it as easy to install as possible. Some of the people who will be installing the image will not have a lot/any FreeBSD However, X will not be installed or used, so that takes out a big barrier to making this work. I've looked at tar, cpio, and dump, but everything I have

Macs have ease of use? Hah!
None of these things are limitations imposed by having it installed into a Windows partition, they're limitations incured by making an OS small enough for a If Windows truly does make it easy to install an OS on the same partition as a Windows installation, then it would be available for more than two OSes.