Chris Wilson Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 I am feeling masochistic, and want to have another play with Linux / Unix. I once installed Red Hat, and although it worked, "maintaining" the syetem was anything but intuitive, to me, at least. That was years ago. What's the most user friendly version that will install ALONGSIDE Windows 2000 Pro, on a system using 2 hard drives in an array? I don't want to know, see or be bothered HOW it works, I don't care if X is more secure than Y version, I don't care if A is faster than B, I want out of the box installation as easy as Windows, I want to be hidden from its inner workings, and I want adding and removing and using new applications to be as easy as Windows. I want a graphical interface, whilst I CAN work in DOS still, I do not intend to try and learn ludicrously ambiguous Unix commands, or start wearing funny clothes, get acne and sit in front of the screen 24 hours a day eating chocolate If I am asking too much I won't bother, it's just for a bit of interests sake, not because I am disatisfied with Windows 2000, or that I have some quasi political probelm with Microsoft, or a fear of its world domination Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Give Knoppix a try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted January 13, 2006 Author Share Posted January 13, 2006 Give Knoppix a try Can it be downloaded for free? Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Try a "live cd". That's a version that boots off cd working - doesn't touch your Windows. Ubuntu is a good one. http://www.ubuntu.com/download Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Can it be downloaded for free? Cheers. Knoppix : http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html As Pete said, Unbuntu is good too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted January 13, 2006 Author Share Posted January 13, 2006 I have Ubuntu, I decompressed it onto a CD but it won't boot, do i have to make a bootable CD? If so, I can't remeber how to do that. As I have Ubuntu here I might try harder to make it boot Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Is your BIOS capable (and set to) boot off CD in the boot order? Not sure what you mean by decompressed it. You should just write the ISO... Using Nero goto recorder / burn image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted January 13, 2006 Author Share Posted January 13, 2006 I set the bios to boot: Floppy, CD, Hard Drive, in that order. It tries to read the CD but won't boot. I'll dig the cd out, I seem to remeber using Winrar to decompress the ISO into a load of directories and file structures, and copied these to the CD. As you know I am better with engines than software... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted January 13, 2006 Author Share Posted January 13, 2006 I have found the 2 CD's I created for Ubuntu, one has just the ISO file on it, the other has the ISO file decompressed via Winrar, with a full and complex directory structure on the CD. Which should I be tryinng to boot from? Thanks. You'll get sick of this soon, feel free to tell me to sod off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Neither one will work. You need to burn the image file in the manner Pete said above. (Using Nero go to recorder / burn image.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 As you know I am better with engines than software... Thank God! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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