On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Yasin A. Vohra wrote: > I would like to know how to partition a hard drive. If you go with Red Hat, there is some discussion of partitions in section 2.8 of their installation guide: http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/manuals/RHL-6.0-Manual/install-guide/manual/ > I have PC running win98 and would like to install Linux on this > machine.(space is not a problem) Is it possible ? Yes. Many people on this liest "dual boot" Linux and one or more other operating systems. > What the difference between turbolinux and Redhat 6.0 . Any url > which can guide me through the installs. Well, there's a turbolinux employee who reads this list, I'm sure that we'll hear from him. I've been using Red Hat, and in most cases the install is almost trivial. The installation manual is pretty nice, and RH now includes some pointers for what to do after you've got RH installed (if you're a complete beginner with Linux). Actually, it's a 270+ page book called "Getting Started Guide." It's mostly about using and configuring GNOME (RedHat's default desktop as of 6.0), but it also appears to describe some basic commands, such as ls and pwd. There's also a bit about system administration in the Installation Guide. Red Hat 6.0 uses the 2.2 Linux kernel. It includes GNOME and KDE. Red Hat uses rpm (redhat package manager) to make updating your system and managing dependencies easier. Red Hat includes some system configuration tools with GUIs so that you can do some system administration without really having to know which files one would edit without the tools. The boxed Red Hat also ships with trial or personal versions of several commercial software applications, such as Applixware, IBM viavoice SDK and run time kit, OpenLink ODBC drivers, and S-plus. The rest of the RPMs with RedHat are fairly standard stuff these days: egcs, gdb, emacs, teTeX, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk, XFree86, etc. I'll let others tell you about TurboLinux since I have no experience with it. ---Tom ------------------------------------------- Tom Bryan Applied Research Laboratories University of Texas at Austin --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
