If you want to play with distros my recommendation is: get suffcient hard disk space to run more than 1 distro on the machine. A 40 G hard drive would give you, say, 3 distros at 10G plus a 10G /media partition for your mp3s and pr0n.
find a distro that suits your needs from day to day and install it on part of the disk. run your bootloader (lilo or grub) off this distro as it will be the stable one. use the rest of the disk to trial installs on, updating your lilo/grub on the stable install. When installing a trial distro do NOT let it install a boot loader or play with the mbr. go back to the stable distro and amend its lilo/grub to boot the new distro. (finding the correct parameters can be a pain). I find grub works better than lilo for this, but each to his own. you can use the same swap partition for all your distros. you can also use UML or vmware to install trial distros in, but you won't get a feel for how it really works with all that emulation layer going on. u On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:13:22 +1200 InfoHelp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cheers Nick, > > This is relevant because knowing you've got the right flavour for your > needs is all about trial & error, from what I've seen. > > I'm still looking around, though RH9 has done the basic work fine for 7 > months - insufficient reason to change, except for update problems that > is! Will go for a whole reinstall once I see what is really better (with > skill-dev to match). > > Any got a recent Turbolinux, for educational purposes? Paul S? > > ~/newbie/rik > > P.S. Theme is related to whole Outsource2NewZealand campaign/problem > publicised on TV1 Breakfast show this a.m. > > http://www.itanz.org.nz/default.asp?Screen=OutSource2 > > i.e. Linux learning = key to programmer skillbase growth, but is there a > local market for us?.. > > NZ sure misses out here. > > Nick Rout wrote: > > >yes i installed a copy off a magazine cover a couple of years ago > >(before i discobered gentoo had everything i wanted and stopped becoming > >a distro junky). > > > >It installed neatly, had some excellent setup tools. Very professional, > >clearly aimed at satisfying corporate users. Japanese IIRC, so geared > >for the asian market. it was all in english, and i don't know any asian > >languages so did not need to worry about asian lang support. > > > >No doubt you can find more at the usual places, principally > >http://www.distrowatch.com > > > > > -- > InfoHelp Services http://www.infohelp.co.nz/linux.html i686 2.4.20-8 > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
