Running Linux...

...in conjunction with Internet Explorer, the reading I just did makes it seem not really doable with Windows '98? But I was told that Linux operates separately from Windows, I thought... Anyway, doesn't look like I can afford to risk using the 189MB, probably end up having troubles. Virtual machines, though, they a download, taking up more space? And would you grab yours from Ubuntu? Isn't that a vm builder~or which vm builder would you pick?

Thanks for any time straightening me out.

~matty*confused*

 

matty dear, get yourself together.

Linux is not Windows and Windows is not Linux. Period.

They are all together different OSs and won't normally run programs designed for another one.

IE is a Windows program & is incompatible with Linux. You can use Firefox on Linux.

By all means grab Ubuntu or better still email them to send you a free disk [how's that ] or copy it from some friend or get it free with some magazine. In Linux world there are so many choices that you may get confused.

If you just want to take Linux for a spin, try out a Live CD. You boot from the cd, get into Linux, poke around & reboot without cd you get to your own OS. No fuss and no pain.

Virtual machines ? For what ? Instead I would advise dual booting machine, but remember to install Windows first followed by Linux and to have a common partition formatted as FAT so that you can share data between the two.

 

Hey, man, whatta you think I'm tryin' to do?

I'd have figured that on my own, without having read that bit tonight, too, here.

That gives me the impression what one will run, the other won't, *** for tat, is that right?

I thought it was incompatible, I just said that, making sure.--But I know it is a Windows program, of course, although I thank you for being sure to draw the whole map. I'm close to that bad, but not quite.

Free with some magazine?--There's a hunt and a goose chase, but thanks on the that, yeah, I'll look into it.

I thought I got some idea out of the reading I did tonight that there needed to be some sort of file sharing at least at some points between Linux and IE? But maybe it was just that people WISHED, for ease of transition from one to the other.

Thanks very much, this helps a lot, I'd already gathered just now the liveCD sounded good.

You just affirmed that, too, I mean.

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Ok, very nice, thanks a lot, honestly, I really appreciate all that, haha, so that's silly, then, eh? Why all the misleading stuff about vms everywhere, then? Don't get it. Couldn't so much be to make a buck, they were everywhere for free. They must have a lot of uses...

What--a dual booting machine? I'll look it up, thanks...Yeah, I definitely have the installing Windows first, down, that makes sense, I'd read that a few times now.

I'll have to see whatchyer FAT is, too, sheesh. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were pullin' a newb's leg. lol

~matty

 

Glad to be of help matty.

A common FAT partition is recommended as its the only format both Windows & Linux can understand without you going through the loops. There are utils available to read each other's format, but writing is a big no no at this time, unless your data is expendable.

 

While its true that Linux can read/write NTFS, its not still fool proof. Reading is not a problem but writing could be a major issue. Its better to be safe than sorry.

 

New Linux tryer

I have a Ubuntu 8.10 CD created from a download. I was told that to install it I had to set my BIOS to boot from the CD. I did so and all went well until I saw reference to a Partitioner, I have been using Windows as long as there was Windows and now using XP-Pro

That partitioner bothered me because it did not ask where I wanted to partition. I have an external 500G drive that I already partitioned to H & K. I want to put Ubuntu on K and if Ubuntu wants to re-partition K that's OK but I was not asked. What would happen???

 

I was NOT given a choice of drive. My external drive is partitioned to H and K and I would select K, if I had the choice