if you go to http://www.pclinuxos.com and choose 'getpclinuxos' you'll get the options to buy, download or try out the community remasters. As I wanted to get stuck in, I chose the download option and burned the ISO to CD. That CD was a PCLinuxOS 2007 liveCD which you can boot off and end up with a nice KDE based desktop.
while i'm not particularly fond of KDE (ok I admit it, k3b rocks !) I moved onward to see how this distro would progress in my hands.
As you can see below from the default livecd bootup, there's a nice KDE desktop with at least one thing some Windows users are used to, and that is the FireFox icon.
My first surprise occured while browsing through the 'PC' menu, and then choosing Internet followed by Remote access. While I expected to find a 'terminal' program I was instead blinded by a familiar Windows Icon (for anyone that uses both Windows and Linux and ssh) called putty. I clicked on it and putty started, I was impressed but also confused, I guess I need to find out exactly what market PCLinuxOS is aimed at (I'm guessing Windows users with some limited linux experience).
Anyways, it was getting late in the night and it was a long week so I decided to get started by clicking on the 'Install PCLinuxOS' icon. that action brought up a Draklive-Install Enhanced wizard, which for Mandrake sorry Mandriva users should be familiar enough, so I did the predictable and clicked on \next'
followed by choosing 'Normal Hard Drive (ide,sata)' and then next. This now gave me the option of removing the Windows Installation that was already there, or for dual booters, use the free space on the Windows partition and why doesn't it spell this out as dual boot.
I chose to dual boot (second option) and after clicking next was given a warning which stated
Quote:WARNING!DrakX will now resize your Windows partition. Be careful: this operation is dangerous. If you have not already done so, you first need to exit the installation, run "chkdsk c:" from a Command Prompt under Windows (beware, running graphical program "scandisk" is not enough, be sure to use "chkdsk" in a Command Prompt!), optionally run defrag, then restart the installation. You should also backup your data. When sure, press Ok.
As this was a test machine and I didn't care about the installation of Windows that was currently on it (Windows XP sp2) I clicked next. Now I was given the option of how much space I should reserve for Windows, as this was a 40gb hdd, I chose half or approx 20gb.
After clicking next, I was informed that because of resizing the partitions, my next boot into Windows would encur some filesystem checks (chkdsk), the next screen that popped up worried me as I can imagine that noobs would not know which window to click on or may panic and give up.
One window told me that a new medium has been detected (20gb Media) and the window directly behind that had a BIG warning symbol on it with
a warning in red which said 'The partition/s you have selected will be formatted. All the data will be wiped. I clicked on next.
after some time it finished its job and presented me with yet another wizard choice, this time for grub. Strangely the programmers didn't bother to consider long 'hard disc serial' names (look at boot device) so I ended up with a scroll bar which makes the wizard look.... unfinished. Anyway, I went with the defaults but before doing so I clicked on the 'bootloader to use' option only to see that grub was offered with graphical, text and also lilo was offered. Cool.
If anyone knows how to do the above pelase tell me. While I scratched my head I clicked on finish.
After pressing the power button and being greeted with a reboot option, I chose it. Cool. After the reboot I was indeed presented with a grub menu similar to what I saw in the installation, so I chose windows to boot. This option did get windows to start chkdsk so the PCLinuxOS had described things correctly. Once done checking, windows rebooted, and PCLinuxOS itself, booted (as I made no further selection within the next grub that appeared.
However once it loaded, I could immediatly see that my desktop was set for a really small screen (640x480 perhaps ?)
:/ i installed ubuntu 7.10 on my 1gb pen drive as mentioned on pendrivelinux but whenever i boot it it is stuck on Ubuntu logo.now how do i correct this mistake? :/
i dont want my pen drive back to fat.i just want to run linux on it.
IMO changing the forum headings to use upper and lower case would make a huge difference to how the forums are presented, at the moment the forums look like user posts and some of the titles should be shortened with the descriptions underneath, would look a lot better if they looked like this:
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I have recently paid for a installed RHEL5.1. This is preciesly what I am looking for.. stable server OS that I don't have to upgrade every 6 month (my gripe with Fedora). However, it has come to my attention that there isn't much in the way of desktop packages for this OS in the repos. No openoofice, and lots of other little things. Does anyone know of any repos that may have such desktop programs. Thanks [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_rolleyes.gif[/img]
So I want to learn to use linux. So what is the best linux for a beginner? Fedora or ubuntu? I want to lean that language what linux uses. Before I have used ubuntu only to try beryl.
I was having trouble playing videos tonight, so I thought I would run an update make sure everything was cool. Update said there was updates so I installed those and then ctrl+alt+backspace and it said X was messed up. Here is the info I have.
xorg-x11-server 1.3.0.0-37.fc8
NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
Sceen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
here is what yum installed
Dec 23 19:16:47 Updated: kmod-nvidia - 169.07-1.lvn8.x86_64
Dec 23 19:16:53 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia - 169.07-1.lvn8.x86_64
Dec 23 19:17:00 Updated: kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.9-85.fc8 - 169.07-1.lvn8.x86_64
My resolution is bad, and the text is quite blurry making googling and even wrting this post difficult to read.
I'm trying to setup a radius server for some wireless clients, I want to use certificates for authentication. So I need to create a root certificate but I can't find the CA.pl script on Fedora 8. Does anyone know if it's called something else or if I have to download it because I've been looking for it for some time and I can't find it. I used the Fedora 8 live CD for my install if that makes any difference.
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