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Getting started with Linux
Name: MarkH Date: September 7, 2002 at 05:24:27 Pacific OS: Linux CPU/Ram: various
Comment:
Hi, I'd like to start using Linux to set up a server. Could anyone recommend which version of Linux to get?
Name: Mark Date: September 7, 2002 at 05:41:54 Pacific
Reply:
You should start with Redhat 7.3, easiest to setup and plenty of documentation.
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Response Number 2
Name: Messiah Date: September 7, 2002 at 08:44:47 Pacific
Reply:
I would recommend installing mandrake. It has the option to install a server (apache, news, ftp,...) and is very userfriendly!
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Response Number 3
Name: MarkH Date: September 8, 2002 at 02:12:00 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for your replies.
So far I have downloaded the 3 iso files for redhat, and burnt them to CD, but I have a strange problem.
I can't get the first CD to boot. The machine just goes through to windoze.
Also got the floppy boot file (boot.img) but when I try to copy it to a clean floppy, I keep getting a message that file is too big for the floppy - (even though the file size is 1.44 Meg)
I'll buy the disks if I need to, but I'd like to work through this problem if I can.
Does anyone have any suggestions about this?
Thanks again
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Response Number 4
Name: MarkH Date: September 8, 2002 at 03:09:21 Pacific
Reply:
I fixed the issue with the CD's.
The first time I burnt them (with Nero) was as a data CD.
The correct way is to burn as an image file. Boots fine now.
Still puzzled about the boot floppy though (not that I need it - but still puzzled).
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Response Number 5
Name: MarkH Date: September 8, 2002 at 07:59:48 Pacific
Reply:
OK - got the floppy issue sorted too.
Have to use a utility called rawrite to transfer boot.img to the floppy.
Guess the moral of the story is to read the instructions.
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