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eaeshamdevil:
i've had enough of it, i want to switch to a 'distro' of linux, but sadly for me, you alltalk of the operating systems themselves and why microsoft sucks, and never get around to explaining how to actually isntal and initiate the operating system, so please in a short manner explain what i need to do, i have a computer that i can experiment on, i want to use a distro of linux . please gimme links and stuff and critizize me plz but explain what i need to do and what kind of work i need to do if i want to use my new linux comp for internet surfing and music and some games, thank you for reading this and for hopefully responding

Stryker:

quote:i've had enough of it, i want to switch to a 'distro' of linux, but sadly for me, you alltalk of the operating systems themselves and why microsoft sucks, and never get around to explaining how to actually isntal and initiate the operating system

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my attempt to translate that would be, "you guys dont teach me how to install an operating sytem enough, tell me again?"

sorry, i would explain it but someone else will do it better. that's what a lot of the posts are about is explaining things to people, including installing linux. which in my opinion is just as simple as windows, stick in the cd and restart.

 
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... so please in a short manner explain what i need to do, i have a computer that i can experiment on, i want to use a distro of linux . please gimme links and stuff and critizize me plz but explain what i need to do and what kind of work i need to do if i want to use my new linux comp for internet surfing and music and some games, thank you for reading this and for hopefully responding
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personally, i dont think anybody actually needs to hold ur hand through it. just try it once, stick in a linux cd and reboot.

i'm sure someone here will go through a long explaination, but i'm in too bad of a mood. nothing personal, just a bad day.

st1d:
Here are some sites, but don't expect them to step you through every option.  Installation isn't that hard, but it's not something anyone does without some reading up.  Otherwise, everybody would buy a cheapy computer without an OS, and then install whichever one they liked, and MS would be out of business back in 1998-99

www.linuxquestions.org
www.tldp.org
www.linux.org
www.linuxtoday.com  (news, but still nice to read)
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/

eaeshamdevil:
http://www.belg88.com/faqman/index.php?op=view&t=73
it's in the f a q , says download it and put it onto  a disk, i did that, and inserteted it into my cd rom drive, rebooted several times and nothing happens, as if the disk isn't even in there. i dl'd the knopix distro , to my desktop, then wrote it to a c d. it said it would boot as the distro, but no dice. please help me out i am stupid but i just need a lil' help

skyman8081:
sounds like a BIOS issue.

you BIOS is booting the Hard drive before the CD-Rom

during the boot sequence, you will have to manually enter into the boot-device menu (usually triggered by the F8 key) and select CD-ROM and boot from there.

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