Switching sides.

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 2:25 am

I'm ready Dan. I have gave it a lot of thought and i want to switch to linux. Can you advise a version of linux i should download?

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 3:30 am

Lou, I tell everyone who wants to have a serious look at Linux to look at one of the "live cd" versions first. This is a complete Linux operating system on a cd that you burn from a downloaded ISO, that will boot into Linux when you set your bios to boot from cdrom. Running this cd will have no effect whatsoever on your Windows so all of that will be safe. There are many versions of live cd Linux. I've looked at many of them, and the one I think that is the coolest is Morphix. It should find and configure all of your hardware right from the cd including configuring your Internet connection, that is if you aren't using 56k. Why don't you download the Morphix-Gnome ISO here, burn the image to cd, boot it, have a look at it, and get familiar with it. If after working with Morphix, you like what you see, we can then discuss installing Linux to your hard drive with a dual boot set-up. That is, keeping your Windows and Linux on the same drive and booting between the two..

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 3:47 am

ok cool thanks. Now i will have to partition my drive to install linux with windows right? I have two drives. Im gunna chech out morphix. thanks a lot!

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 3:52 am

Lou-saydus wrote:Now i will *** have to partition my drive to install linux with windows right?

Did you mean to have a "not" in there? If not, no you will not have to partition or do anything to your HD to use Morphix.

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:16 am

No i meant if i download a HD version of linux. Man im so exicited i cant wait to get this dl done!

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 6:13 am

um i forgot how to boot from a cd.. by the time u see this i might have figured it out. so if you see this please tell me.. lol

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 12:10 pm

Have you already created the Morphix cd? If you already know how to create an image from an ISO, please forgive me, but remember to burn an image of the ISO you downloaded not the ISO itself. I made that mistake several times myself!

To boot from a cdrom, you must first access your bios and set the boot sequence up to boot from cdrom before booting the hard drive. When you first boot up, there may be something that says "for setup press F2" or something like that. If your computer does not show this, and you don't know which key to press to access your bios, you may have to research your motherboard to find out. Caution: Make sure you don't change any other settings in your bios other than changing the boot sequence!

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:17 pm

So I have to burn and image of the ISO? And then boot from that cd not from a cd with the ISO itself on it? So uhhh.. how do I make a image of the ISO?

machf · Post by **machf** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:19 pm

An ISO file is an image of a CD... so you have to load that image (the ISO file) into your CD-burning software and use it to burn a CD.

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 8:57 pm

Are you presently able to create cds? what software program do you use when creating them?

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 6:31 pm

nero 5.0.4.6. and yes i can make cds.... but how do i boot from it?

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 6:59 pm

As well as I remember, don't use the wizard. Use the drop down menu from the upper left and choose "burn image." Then, tell it where the Morphix iso is and burn it.

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:42 pm

Progress report?

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 5:46 pm

um well when i do that it wants a .nrg file... and needless to say i dont have one.. any other ways?

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 7:29 pm

What the heck is a .nrg file??!!