Linux Users.. Help me choose a distribution.
Rich
03-07-2002, 02:28 PM
I just finished building a new PC today and im running WinXP and there is a second partition (5gb) for linux.
I used to run Redhat 6, but it is getting a little outdated. What do you ppl suggest? Which distribution is your favourite, and where can I download it.
I went to Redhat's website to d/l Redhat 7, but the server is very slow. I also looked on morpheus but could not find it there. Anyone know where I can d/l it at a resinable speed?
This should be ok to post here as it is legal to d/l Linux.
Any comments / suggestions welcome..
I used to run Redhat 6, but it is getting a little outdated. What do you ppl suggest? Which distribution is your favourite, and where can I download it.
I went to Redhat's website to d/l Redhat 7, but the server is very slow. I also looked on morpheus but could not find it there. Anyone know where I can d/l it at a resinable speed?
This should be ok to post here as it is legal to d/l Linux.
Any comments / suggestions welcome..
jaxle
03-07-2002, 03:20 PM
a lot of linux distros servers are slow, it takes a while to find a new one. anyways slackware is a good distro but it isnt good for ppl who arent familiar with linux, try mandrake or FreeBSD, mandrake is really easy to setup i believe
Neutrino
03-07-2002, 03:53 PM
I use mandrake its a breze to setup supports a lot of hardware and runs very well.
Polygon
03-08-2002, 12:33 AM
Mandrake or Debian. :)
But over all I like FreeBSD. It is best if you want to make a firewall as well.
But over all I like FreeBSD. It is best if you want to make a firewall as well.
Gonthrax
03-13-2002, 10:21 AM
I used to run Redhat 6.2, I liked it but I ran into a problem uninstalling it. It ate my harddrive, now before you laugh at me this is what happened.
Ok, I go to uninstall, it crashes. It will no longer get past LiLo boot without crashing.
Now, when I use a boot disk to get into dos and run Fdisk this is what happened. I'm seeing 2 partitions, one is 99% of my disk space, and has all my data on it, one is 1% of my disk space and it is blank. Now the problem with this is I couldn't remove any of my partitions or even just format the whole thing because of this screwy error. When I tried to play with my partitions I was told "Cannot delete partition becaus Dos Logic drives do not exist" Well that would be ok, because there wern't any Logic drive partitions... So I figure, I'll make one... No... When I try to create one I get "Cannot Create Dos Logic Drive because one already exists" (or somthing to that effect) Any how, I forget exactialy what else was preventing me from doing anything but trust me, I was stuck :( :(
So I daisy chained it and nuked the whole damn thing and reformatted :D :D
Ok, I go to uninstall, it crashes. It will no longer get past LiLo boot without crashing.
Now, when I use a boot disk to get into dos and run Fdisk this is what happened. I'm seeing 2 partitions, one is 99% of my disk space, and has all my data on it, one is 1% of my disk space and it is blank. Now the problem with this is I couldn't remove any of my partitions or even just format the whole thing because of this screwy error. When I tried to play with my partitions I was told "Cannot delete partition becaus Dos Logic drives do not exist" Well that would be ok, because there wern't any Logic drive partitions... So I figure, I'll make one... No... When I try to create one I get "Cannot Create Dos Logic Drive because one already exists" (or somthing to that effect) Any how, I forget exactialy what else was preventing me from doing anything but trust me, I was stuck :( :(
So I daisy chained it and nuked the whole damn thing and reformatted :D :D
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