[TriLUG] Newbie needs help

[David McDowell]

You might want to try Ubuntu (based on Debian as well), Fedora Core
(sponsored by Red Hat), and others in the group would mention Mandriva
(formally Mandrake) and possibly even SuSE (Novell) distros for easy
installs for a newbie.

http://www.ubuntulinux.org
http://fedora.redhat.com
http://www.mandrivalinux.com
http://www.suse.com
http://www.debian.org

have fun and welcome to linux!  :)
David McD


On 5/23/05, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just installed knoppix 3.8 to my HD yesterady.  It worked great.
> I'm not sure of the differences between 3.7 and 3.8 (except they are
> probably bug fixes).  My thoughts on this would be to go straigth to
> 3.8 and install from there.
> 
> You'll like Knoppix on the HD.  I just Knoppix/Debian for just about
> everything these days.  It is very easy to keep anything debian up to
> date with patches and it is also easy to move upwards in distributions
> (something not so easy, especially for a remote machine, running
> Fedora).
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On 5/23/05, Brian Henning <brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:
> > Hi Alan,
> >    Welcome to the Wonderful World of Linux!  I'm sure I speak for the
> > majority of TriLUG when I say we're glad to have you aboard.
> >
> > I personally have never had any luck with a Knoppix hd-install.
> > However, Knoppix is based on Debian, and I've had great luck with
> > installing Debian.  In fact, I run Debian Sarge on my primary
> > workstation here in jai^H^H^H^H^H^H at work.  Debian itself isn't quite
> > as It-Just-Works-y as Knoppix, but It-Just-Works is not what I've
> > encountered with Knoppix hd-install anyhow.  Knoppix is great to run as
> > a live-CD, but I would personally highly recommend a fuller distribution
> > as a permanent hd installation.
> >
> > I've never been to an Installfest myself, but I bet they're really
> > helpful.  People always rave about them.  If you want some guidance
> > during the installation, cart your box over to the next Installfest and
> > the folks there will be happy to help out.
> >
> > HTH,
> > ~Brian
> >
> >
> > Alan Byerly wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >     I'm just beginning with Linux, finally got up the
> > > courage to leave Windows, and I need some help.  I'm
> > > working with the Knoppix 3.7 live CD and have been
> > > trying to load it to the hard drive on an old IBM
> > > 300PL.  I've figured out the basics on how to install
> > > Knoppix however when I try to install it on this
> > > particular hard drive I get the following error
> > > message:
> > > Error: Expected at least 7 tokens for --radiolist,
> > > have 4.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any experience with this error
> > > message or have any ideas on how to fix it?  Any help
> > > you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > I look forward to becoming a trilug member at the next
> > > meeting in June.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
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