----- Original Message -----
From: "Loyal Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 1:14 PM
Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: installation of linux
> --- In [email protected], "pankaj.sharma1729"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> hi!
>> can anyone tell me how can i install Linux on my pc. i have windows xp
>> installed on it?
>> can i still install Linux with windows on my pc?
>>
> The answer depends on the amount of free drive space you have with
> windows. If you can spare 10-20 GB and still have plenty of room for
> windows, go for it. Here are the steps I would do:
> 1. Go to distrowatch.com and select a Linux distro I want to try.
> 2. Follow the links to download the distro's *.iso file.
> 3. Use something like the free windows version of Deep Burner
> (available from deepburner.com) to convert the iso image into a burned
> CD ROM. You do have a CD burner don't you?
> 4. Back up the entirety of my windows drive.
> 5. Go into the BIOS of the computer and set my CD drive as the first
> boot device.
> 6. Reboot the machine with the distro in the CD drive.
> 7. Follow the prompts on the distro install.
> 8. Go back into the BIOS and set my hard drive as the first boot device.
>
> Most distros will allow you to "shrink" the windows partition. This
I am interested in this thread and would like to know more about the bios
change. Mine doesn't seem to offer me the opportunity to change the boot
order. My puter is a dell optima gx1. Not a tower version.
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