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There is no need to buy a GNU/Linux distro if you have a fast enough connection to download it. Download the ISO image's and burn to a CD. The whole idea behind GNU/Linux is that it's free.

You can run Linux on a 3 1/2 floppy so I don't see a problem with you running it on an external drive. If you can't boot from it though, and possibly even if you can boot from it, you'll have to set up your bootloader using (Lilo or Grub) to point to it using initrd, or you can build in support for the drive to the kernel this will involve compiling in the kernel module (device driver) for this into your kernel. To do this you'll need the kernel source for your distro.
 
Reading this thread last week reminded me that I've been meaning to try out linux for ages, but have kept putting it off for fear of the unknown. Well I finally got round to downloading Fedora Core 3 and installing it on my Dell Latitude D400 laptop yesterday. The installation itself went very well, and is not that different to installing windows. However I was somewhat disappointed to find out that the wireless (Intel wireless Pro 2100) was not recognised, despite it working fine when I tried a Knoppix live cd a couple of months ago. I'd started surfing various sites trying to find a solution to this problem when I noticed that Fedora was telling me that there were updates to install - which I d/loaded and installed. The updates and their installation carried on late into yesterday evening - so I went to bed leaving it to it's own devices. I came down this morning to find that everything was installed and just needed to re-boot. To my surprise the wireless card was listed under network adapters! I've no idea whether it works yet as I had to leave for work!

Being a complete linux newbie I feel absolutely lost - what with all these .rpm and terminal window commands. Can anyone point me in the right direction and give me a few links to websites or books to read to get me started? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
Unicast said:
Reading this thread last week reminded me that I've been meaning to try out linux for ages, but have kept putting it off for fear of the unknown. Well I finally got round to downloading Fedora Core 3 and installing it on my Dell Latitude D400 laptop yesterday. The installation itself went very well, and is not that different to installing windows. However I was somewhat disappointed to find out that the wireless (Intel wireless Pro 2100) was not recognised, despite it working fine when I tried a Knoppix live cd a couple of months ago. I'd started surfing various sites trying to find a solution to this problem when I noticed that Fedora was telling me that there were updates to install - which I d/loaded and installed. The updates and their installation carried on late into yesterday evening - so I went to bed leaving it to it's own devices. I came down this morning to find that everything was installed and just needed to re-boot. To my surprise the wireless card was listed under network adapters! I've no idea whether it works yet as I had to leave for work!

Being a complete linux newbie I feel absolutely lost - what with all these .rpm and terminal window commands. Can anyone point me in the right direction and give me a few links to websites or books to read to get me started? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Unicast,

I am still a linux n00b myself but have had a great deal of success with Suse (i am the origianl poster of this thread from last year), since using suse personal9.1 I am now using Suse pro 9.2 which is a dream. I understand suse have also made some great leaps with wireless support on 9.2 (I don't use wireless on my desktop machine)

A section from their website

SUSE LINUX Professional 9.2 includes several new key features:

* Powerful operating system built on Linux kernel 2.6.8
* Enhanced mobility with WLAN and Bluetooth support
* Applications for enhanced productivity, collaboration, connectivity and development
* Easy-to-use desktop interfaces: KDE 3.3 and GNOME 2.6
* And much more...
Read more. Read More


more info here http://www.novell.com/products/linuxprofessional/

9.3 is out soon can't wait (I am sooo sad! :D )
 
...Being a complete linux newbie I feel absolutely lost - what with all these .rpm and terminal window commands. Can anyone point me in the right direction and give me a few links to websites or books to read to get me started? Any help would be greatly appreciated! ...


Sites that may be of interest to you include -

http://www.fedoraforum.org/

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/index.php

http://www.fedorafaq.org/

And a well known free book - http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html . There are also a reasonable number of Fedora specific books at Amazon e.g. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...t_1/102-9352026-4342509?v=glance&s=books&st=*
. :)
 
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Thanks for the info guys, and sorry that I didn't reply sooner but I've been busy trying to iron out the kinks. I got my wireless to work in the end , but I've not been able to get my Alps touchpad to work properly. I'm also a bit disappointed about the page rendering in Firefox - text sizes are a bit small on some sites. I know about the [CTRL]+[+/-] ;) but I never had to do that under windows with Firefox.

I'm d/l Suse 9.2 dvd iso at the moment (my ips's gonna love me for that! ;) ) I'll give that a whirl at the weekend.
 
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UPDATE:
Success! SuSE 9.2 is great, everything just works! Ok I had to d/l the firmware for my wireless card (also on SuSE ftp server!) and install it but it works flawlessly. Even the Alps touchpad works! :cool:

I must admit I'm not a great fan of KDE, and had to re-install to change to Gnome. I only wish I'd done this years ago!
 
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