Hello Theo
Why don't you just install one of the very easy to install
distributions ? Like Mandrake, I have it now on 5 machines and on all
of them it went in without any problems. Just Wizard like install
similar to Windows Install.
RedHat 9 was all right also but I stopped using it after they stopped
making it in that form as it felt like a dead end.
Suse is supposed to be one of the large distros also and one 3 of the 5
machines I attempted to install Suse but it did not like something in
my hardware and always gave kernel errors at install time. so I have 0
out of 3 luck with Suse.
So if you just need to get Linux installed then I recommend Mandrake, I
have 5 out of 5 luck with that one. And that is all without any
previous Linux knowledge.
Björn
On 16.3.2005, at 00:52, Theodore H.Smith wrote:
I still have been unable to install Linux on my PC.
I was hoping to install Linux, so that I can port my plugin to Linux.
Is there anywhere I can take my PC for someone to install Linux on it?
I can't see how Linux can be so popular when installing it requires
the highest technical skills and the patience to work through tons of
bugs and bad documentation. It can't be this hard to install Linux or
else it would never have been this popular.
Currently, I managed to download fedora and burn it onto CDs (with
enough unnecssary problems no fault of my own but I won't mention them
now).
Now it turns out, that I must repartition my computer with "parted".
The thing is, that I can't do this, because the screen on the linux
rescue mode of the install CD, is broken. The lines display badly and
there are missing lines on the screen. Unless I must do guess work
with a utility I've never used before, I can't repartition the
computer.
I've been told that I can't fix the screen without first installing
linux. But I can't install linux without first fixing the screen.
Is there some easier way?
Something I can just download and let it install itself? Some place I
can take my laptop and just have Linux installed? Anything simple?
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