Knoppix is a great way to probe and see if the hardware that you have
is supported under Linux. If all works well, albeit a bit slowly since
it
is running from CD, you can then install Knottix or Kubuntu or another
distribution to hard disk and gain the full speed.
Knottix and Kubuntu and some other distributions can be installed after
Windows. Always after Windows as Windows will wipe out any othe
OS on the system when it installs. Do a disk defrag under Windows
first. Then boot from the Knottix or Kubuntu cd and run the installer.
It should
take you through partitioning and allow you to shrink the Windows
partition to make room for the needed Linux partitions and then install
Linux and
set up the Grub boot menu to give you a choice of which OS to run. This
is what I have done on a couple of AMD 64 boxes I built. (I would not
have
even put Windows on the box but for the fact that there was one program
that only ran under Windows that I needed to run for work.)
On Feb 25, 2006, at 10:18, Michael J. Reude wrote:
Roxann,
Something to consider instead of running Linux from CD is to
partition your drive so that you have a Windows install and a Linux
install. That would take care of the speed issue, though I haven't
seen much of a speed issue with Linux on CD. If you do LoCD though
you'll also need a USB memory stick or something to store your setup
files on. In my oppinion if you have a sizable HDD it isn't that big
of a deal to sacrifise 10-15 GB to Linux.
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