I have windows xp preinstalled on my dell laptop in disc ‘c’,I have enough space on my disc ‘d’ and want to install linux there,so how can I do it? Do I need to partition? Is it automatically gonna be installed there (on disc ‘d’) when I boot with Ubuntu live cd? Am I going to lose my data and files on disc ‘c’ and ‘e’ if I install ubuntu this way?
Thanx lots.
Posted in Linux Live CDs
Tagged boot, dell, dell laptop, disc, gonna, help, Laptop, Linux, partition, preinstalled, space, Ubuntu, windows xp
I have windows xp preinstalled on my dell laptop in disc ‘c’,I have enough space on my disc ‘d’ and want to install linux there,so how can I do it? Do I need to partition? Is it automatically gonna be installed there (on disc ‘d’) when I boot with Ubuntu live cd? Am I going to lose my data and files on disc ‘c’ and ‘e’ if I install ubuntu this way?
Thanx lots.
Posted in Linux Live CDs
Tagged boot, dell, dell laptop, disc, gonna, help, Laptop, Linux, partition, preinstalled, space, Ubuntu, windows xp
I have always been a mac guy but lately have been messing around with the command line and also learning how to program in Ruby. Today, I decided to install Damn Small Linux on my old computer in the garage. So I popped in the live cd, tested it out, then decided to do a hard drive install. I restarted, typed “install” at the command prompt then a list of options popped up. I went into cfdisk and deleted the windows partition (so there was my entire harddisk space free–no other partitions.) Then I clicked Create and clicked Primary and it asked how much space I wanted to use–I put half the total amount. Then I clicked create again and this time I clicked (I think it was called secondary or something like that??) and made the space the rest of the space I had left…this is the part that confused me. I wasn’t sure if I should have just made one primary linux partition or the two. Then it asked me if I wanted to install a boot loader (I guessed and said yes.) Did I do it right?
Oh, and after creating the two partitions I wrote them both to the disk, then said yes to installing Grub boot loader. Do I need a boot loader if only running DSL and no other OS? I also created two users, 1 root and 2 dsl–and gave them different passwords. Lastly, if I want to save a file to the desktop, it says there is no “Desktop” directory, so where do I save it to? On my mac I save my program files in a folder titled, “programs” then open the terminal and type: cd Desktop/programs
then type: ruby filename.rb
and it runs. How do I do this on DSL or linux in general?
Thanks!!
Posted in Linux Live CDs
Tagged boot loader, CFDISK, command, Correctly, Damn, damn small linux, DSL, Guy, Hard Drive, harddisk space, Linux, linux partition, Mac, mac guy, old computer, partition, partitions, ruby, small, space
I started playing around with an old HP Pavilion 6735 and damn small linux. I tried to boot it up from the live CD as normal, it said “undefined mode number” so I just pressed space to skip, it started up but the graphics were all distorted and grainy.
Then I rebooted and used the boot cheat code: dsl 2
When it got to the terminal, I typed in: Xvesa -listmodes
The 2 best resolutions and color depths I got were: 800x600x16 and 1024x768x8
8 bit color depth is a little low, so I rebooted and used a cheatcode to boot it into 800x600x16. Everything went fine and the colors were perfect
My question is:
Is the reason the colors get distorted on default boot-up (1024x768x24) because my computer’s GPU can’t handle that resolution and color depth?
why doesn’t anyone answer when the question has to do with damn small linux?
Posted in Linux Live CDs
Tagged boot, Damn, damn small linux, grainy, hp, hp pavilion 6735, hp pavillion, Linux, mode, mode number, number, Pavilion, Pavillion, small, space
I have a 2.0 GB usb 2 thumb drive and want to put Linux on it to boot from, like a live CD Idead, only not as limiting on drive space. Thanks!! Also which distro is best?
Posted in Linux Live CDs
Tagged boot, bootable linux, distro, drive, drive space, Idead, Linux, space, space thanks, thumb, thumb drive, usb, usb 2
